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...Verdun in the first World War; Coventry, Stalingrad and Dresden in the second. In Viet Nam, the enduring symbol is likely to be Hué, once the imperial capital and long the fountainhead of the country's intellectual and artistic tradition. A year ago, during the Communists' Tet offensive, Hué was battered as was no other city in Viet Nam. It took 26 days of house-to-house, block-to-block fighting to drive out a tenacious 6,000-man invading Communist force. The U.S. Marines had not fought that way since Seoul in 1950; the South...
Ducks on the Courts. But much remains to be done. Hundreds of people have refused to start rebuilding. Explains a student: "Some just take the government money and go away. Would you build a new house in Hué?" Of the original 115,000 refugees created by Tet, some 60,000 still subsist in camps. Hué University, once the pride of the old capital, has reopened, although still in temporary quarters. A professor says sadly: "We have more than 3,000 students again. But we are not yet a university. We lack books, facilities and teachers-most...
...military dictatorships in Thailand, the Congo, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, Iran, etc.; it is to protect these freedoms that the U.S. has razed whole villages (Ben Suc) and almost totally destroyed major cities (Ben Tre--a city of 35,000--was 85 per cent destroyed by U.S. bombing during the Tet offensive. Globe, 2/8/68). There is no just solution to the war in Vietnam except complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and complete termination of American influence...
Clifford took office in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive, and his first job included evaluating a request from the generals for 200,000 more troops. For two weeks, he examined all the angles with the same care that had made him one of Washington's most successful lawyers. Finally, he decided that a further buildup was madness. A subsequent trip to Saigon confirmed his suspicion that South Viet Nam's government wanted no part of a peace that would oblige them to risk political concessions and curtail the comforts of U.S. military protection and cash...
...political loyalties of the 12,000 hamlets that dot South Viet Nam's countryside could have a profound effect on the future of the national government. With that in mind, President Nguyen Van Thieu last October launched a major drive to secure 1,120 new hamlets before the Tet holiday next February. Nearly half of all U.S. military operations are now launched in support of this political effort, and the work is apparently beginning to pay off: last week the U.S. announced that 73.3% of South Viet Nam's population is under government control...