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...city of Quang Tri farther north, and it is believed that An Loc was to have been the seat of a provisional Viet Cong government. It should not have been a difficult target. In Binh Long province, the chief ARVN force was the 10,000-man 5th Division, a weak outfit that had been badly bloodied by the North Vietnamese a year ago in Cambodia. Opposing it, were two battle-tested North Vietnamese divisions, and an artillery regiment (some 20,000 to 30,000 men) equipped with Soviet heavy weapons, including as many as 50 tanks...
Early on, the Communists had cut a wide swath through Binh Long, "liberating" several hamlets and overrunning the 5th Division logistics base at Loc Ninh. Backed by their Soviet-made artillery and tanks, several thousand regulars of the North Vietnamese 5th and 9th Divisions then surrounded An Loc and its 12,000 defenders, who included a ranger battalion and remnants of two battered 5th Division regiments...
March Against the War. Assemble at 5th Ave, and 72 St., New York. 10, April...
Beatle-booted, bell-bottomed, turtle-necked, and althogether more hip-looking, we thought, than the next students gathered around him, Mr. Mailer was as generous with his conversation as anyone could demand. He held away over the worshipful without pause, punctuating 5th Avenue prep-schoolese with occasional puffings of his torso and rockings on his heel. A man who writes like a good whore smiling form the hip should be a good talker. Mr. Mailer is, and was Friday--at least, we learned, for a while. He did not, in fact, dine at all, but kept his post...
Jean Sinnott was a surprise in the 200-yd. individual medley, bettering her own time by five seconds and grabbing seventh place. Sophomore Connie Cervilla placed 5th in the 50-yd, butterfly...