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...Viet Nam the longest is the widespread destruction of its cities, its towns, its homes. It was the Viet Cong's decision to bring the war into the midst of the cities, and the initial damage was wrought by Communist guns and mortars. But the bulk of the actual destruction occurred during the allied counterattacks to oust the Viet Cong. For allied commanders, these posed a grim dilemma that was summed up bluntly-and injudiciously-by a U.S. major involved in the battle for Ben Tre. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," he said...
...Victory of Sorts. Allied intelligence had predicted that there would be some attempted city attacks during Tet, but the size, the scale and, above all, the careful planning and coordination of the actual assaults took the U.S. and South Vietnamese military by surprise. In that sense, and because they continued after five days of fighting to hang on to some of their targets, the Communists undeniably won a victory of sorts. "This is real fighting on a battlefield," admitted Brigadier General John Chaisson, Westmoreland's combat operations coordinator for South Viet Nam. The Communist attack was, he said, "a very...
...observers think that that may be the case when all the combat reports filed in the swirl of battle are cross-checked?it would still represent a huge bloodletting of the enemy's forces in South Viet Nam. Even the lower estimates leave no doubt about who won the actual battles: U.S. dead numbered 367 and South Vietnamese military dead about...
...journalism schools are improving these days because they are teaching less journalism. At both graduate and undergraduate levels, the schools are stressing the liberal arts and down playing the techniques of the trade. In most undergraduate schools, only 25% of the course requirements are in actual journalism, and that percentage is decreasing even further at some schools. "The four years of college," says Robert Beyers of Stanford University, "is such a short time to acquire an education that it should not be devoted to learning skills which can easily be acquired outside the classroom...
...proposal stated that "The actual tactics adopted against Dow should be decided on by the membership on the basis of an assessment of our strength at that time." But a long procession of speakers seemed to agree that the Dow recruiter should not be physically obstructed, as he was last October...