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...Saigon announced that American casualties during the previous week were the highest yet: 562 killed in action. At the same time, the Communists launched their latest bloody round of countrywide attacks in South Viet Nam (see THE WORLD). Often suicidal, almost invariably foiled, the attacks nonetheless offered proof that Ho Chi Minh was determined and able to go on fighting while talking. It meant that, as in Korea, many more men would have to face the particularly bitter fate of dying while excruciatingly slow negotiations are trying to find...
...positions," notably expressions of hope for an independent and peaceful South Viet Nam. But the North Vietnamese swiftly rejected the overture, declaring: "In fact, our positions are very far apart." So they remained after a final four-hour session at week's end, held on the eve of Ho Chi Minh's 78th birthday...
...disastrously expensive for the enemy. But it did inflict severe new wounds on Saigon and its people. Moreover, Hanoi got its headlines, its pictures of whole blocks on fire and of the suffering of the capital's 60,000 newly homeless refugees. As a postscript, and to celebrate Ho Chi Minh's 78th birthday, the Communists last week launched a fresh shelling of Saigon; one rocket narrowly missed the palace, where President Nguyen Van Thieu and his family were sleeping...
...Ho ho," chuckled a steel-rimmed grad student peering at a two-inch strawberry blown to twice its size by the glass of champagne it floated in. "What...
...Bandwagon. Che cultists reverently equate him with such other leftist heroes as Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, and French Marxist Régis Debray, a captured member of Che's Bolivian guerrilla band now serving a 30-year prison sentence. "I can't think of a revolutionary in the last century who had his romantic appeal," says Tariq Ali, 24, Pakistani-born leader of London's anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...