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Whatever may happen in Paris, peace seemed a distant prospect last week on the battlefields of Viet Nam, where the war rose to a fighting pitch of intensity unequaled since the Tet offensive. The Viet Cong shelled Saigon and a dozen other cities and attempted ground attacks in some cases, but their assault, far from being a second round on the scale of Tet, amounted to little more than coordinated harassment. Elsewhere, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces scored sizeable victories in heavy fighting around Saigon, in the Delta and, particularly, in northernmost I Corps, where the bloodiest battles...
When the North Vietnamese swept into the city of Hue during Tet, they brought with them political officers armed with photographs and dossiers of the city's anti-Communist leaders and government officials. Working door to door like pollsters of death, the Communists during their 24-day occupation hunted down and systematically slaughtered their quarry, young and old, men and women, Vietnamese and foreigners (TIME, April 5). The grim magnitude of that brief reign of terror emerged in an official U.S. report released last week...
...Since Tet, more than 1,000 bodies have been uncovered in 19 separate mass graves. Examinations of the remains indicate that only the fortunate were shot; many were beheaded, some were mutilated, nearly all died with their hands tied behind their backs...
...Washington to become Army Chief of Staff. Leaving Viet Nam with the reluctance of any commander who would like to see a campaign through to its end, Westmoreland is also disturbed by the fact that his conduct of the war has been questioned more since the Communists' Tet offensive than at any other time during his tour of duty. In an interview last week with TIME Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, he reviewed his stewardship and replied to his critics on a variety of points...
...military activity when I first came here. The ARVN had problems in training, leadership, equipment, personnel and logistics. All of these either have been eliminated or are well on the road to elimination. In fact, the ARVN has become an effective fighting organization, as it well demonstrated during the Tet offensive and in numerous actions since...