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...McCulloch, now head of LIFE'S Washington bureau, rented a villa in the city's downtown district-a convenient if not commodious structure located between the Presidential Palace and the new American embassy. The two-story, whitewashed building is devoted mostly to office space. During the 1968 Tet offensive, however, correspondents, Vietnamese employees and most of their families moved into the TIME compound...
Hanoi's handling of its casualties is an especially intriguing point. Since the 1968 Tet offensive, the North Vietnamese have borne the brunt of the fighting in the South; during that time, they have suffered an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 battle deaths. Yet the Hanoi regime does not inform parents and wives of the fate of their dead sons and husbands. Possibly Hanoi's silence on the subject indicates that the government fears popular reaction to the big losses. On the other hand, the regime's behavior may simply indicate that it does not have...
Despite the hopeful signs, the thought of a permanent settlement seemed like wishful thinking in Saigon last week. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces unleashed their most widespread attack on the South-but not the heaviest-since the infamous Tet offensive of 1968. From U.S. military bases to provincial cities to the psychological payoff target of Saigon, rocket shells and terrorist bombs exploded with deadly frequency. They were followed, especially at U.S. outposts and forward bases, by ground assaults that forced many units into close combat. As a result, the American death toll for each of the past two weeks...
...with the Tet attack of 1968, the current Communist offensive has served to underscore the urgency of building a strong government in Saigon. There is almost no way for the U.S. to disengage completely from the war until it can be turned over to a durable South Vietnamese government commanding trained and equipped troops, able to handle the indigenous Viet Cong who remain after all the North Vietnamese soldiers return home...
...business of running the government, Thieu has also had to start with the most basic object?survival. Among the top aims of the 1968 Tet offensive, after all, was the overthrow of the U.S. "puppet" government in Saigon. The Communists made no headway whatever in provoking civil disorder, and that aim was notably absent in the current offensive. But because of that presumed vulnerability, Thieu has spent more than a little effort in simply assuring the nation that he is alive and well in Saigon...