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...against overwhelming odds. Last week in Viet Nam it joined the list of casualties. Not since the early months of 1965, when the Communists were on the verge of overrunning South Viet Nam just before the U.S. buildup, had the mood and prospects of the allies looked so totally grim...
...cover story while eating lunch. On the first page of your color spread covering the embassy attack my eating came to an abrupt end. No one, certainly, would applaud your printing of such photos, but maybe such gruesome sights are what we need to be brought back to the grim reality that the news on TV is not just reruns of Combat, where the guy killed this week will return to co-star next...
Once again the U.S. had to separate fond hope from grim fact. On successive days, the Johnson Administration announced that reinforcements would be sent immediately to South Viet Nam and that the latest rumors about peace feelers from Hanoi had added up to nothing. As if to underscore the news, Communist forces over the weekend launched a savage new offensive across South Viet...
...story of his ugly ordeal behind Soviet bars for 18 months is as harrowing as anything in Koestler's Darkness at Noon, despite the fact that it was not Stalin's grim regime but Khrushchev's that punished Wynne. Though he was sometimes beaten, the primary torture was calculated degradation aimed at reducing Wynne to a broken, pliable animal. He never had adequate clothes or blankets for the harsh Rus sian winters. He was forced to live amid the stench of his own excrement...
...Viet Cong's decision to bring the war into the midst of the cities, and the initial damage was wrought by Communist guns and mortars. But the bulk of the actual destruction occurred during the allied counterattacks to oust the Viet Cong. For allied commanders, these posed a grim dilemma that was summed up bluntly-and injudiciously-by a U.S. major involved in the battle for Ben Tre. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," he said. The Viet Cong had nearly the whole town under their control. The ARVN defenders were pinned down in their...