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...Viet Nam, less than 1% were draftees; today, draftees make up 20% of the nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and the proportion is likely to go higher with rising troop commitments. The new inductee thus has a better than one-in-five chance of reaching the battlefield...
Ready for Action. In the weeks before Tet, a curious quiescence had enveloped the battlefield. U.S. troops had not encountered the Viet Cong in force since mid-December. Officials in Saigon launched a pre-Tet propaganda-for-peace campaign that included airdrops of millions of leaflets and safe-conduct passes for Viet Cong defectors, and endless broadcasts of heart-rending ballads ("Oh, what dreams are you making, dreaming of the success of the vicious Communists?"). But Hanoi seemed as deeply committed as ever to its stubborn, bloody gamble for South Viet...
...stingy 12-ft. by 15-ft. studio, lit by a dusty studio window and bare light bulbs, heated by a potbellied stove, was strewn with butts of cigarettes that he chimneyed at the rate of three or four packs a day. Its grimy floor was for Giacometti a battlefield. He once made a model sit in the same pose for years in a vain attempt to capture her likeness. He traveled little except for trips to Stampa, Switzerland, at Christmas and New Year...
...armistice conference. Thereafter, we lacked the essential military pressure to enforce a reasonable attitude"-and 70,000 American casualties were sustained under Communist attacks while the talks dragged on for two years. In Viet Nam, warns a top U.S. diplomat in the Far East, to ease up on the battlefield would be "to ensure a loss at the bargaining table." Furthermore, if talks broke down after a ceasefire, it would be difficult to regain the momentum to start the war up again. Some U.S. diplomats also insist that any talks should have a time limit and not be allowed...
Though she roughed it with the troops and took risks that many of them balked at, she never lost her femininity on the battlefield. "Maggie wears mud like other women wear makeup," said an admiring G.I. In fact, she used her blonde, blue-eyed charm to get the stories she wanted, a ploy that left some of her male colleagues sputtering with rage. Angriest of all was her fellow Trib reporter Homer Bigart. "Maggie is driving Homer right into a Pulitzer Prize for the best coverage of the Korean War," said another correspondent. The two drove each other; they shared...