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...given up. Although not officially abandoned by Saigon, Thua Thien, containing the ancient imperial capital of Hue, was by week's end clearly in imminent danger of falling into North Vietnamese hands. In the South, only 50 miles north of Saigon and next to already fallen Phuoc Long, Binh Long province was relinquished. In addition, several other provinces were seriously threatened by Communist forces; at week's end one of them, Quang Due on the southern edge of the Central Highlands, fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: THIEU'S RISKY RETREAT | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...next three year's choices--University of Oklahoma president J. Herbert Hollomon and writers Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wicker--ranged from inoffensive to creditable, with even more commendable choices, such as Madame Binh of Paris Peace Talks fame, who finished seventh in 1973, garnering some student support. In 1973, the first year that Allen passed up his chance, the Class committee came up with playwright Arthur Miller as the next best thing. Miller accepted, and as if to disprove Death of a Salesman's thesis that "attention must be paid," he read from his introduction to Garage Sale, a collection...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Choosing A Heavyweight | 3/14/1975 | See Source »

...consider other possibilities as well. For example, they might recommend Fidel Castro, who startled the diplomatic world during his last visit to the United States by staying in a Harlem hotel instead of the Waldorf-Astoria. Or they might follow their predecessors of two years ago and consider Madama Binh. If they prefer to limit themselves to Americans, the seniors have a less charismatic but still meritorious group to choose from. Roger Baldwin '04, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, will probably be in town for Commencement anyway. Henry Aaron may be swinging through, too, now that...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Choosing A Heavyweight | 3/14/1975 | See Source »

...Indochina been so bloody. Following up their capture of Phuoc Long province earlier this month (TIME, Jan. 20), Communist forces last week kept relentless pressure on the Saigon government with small-unit action throughout the country. Saigon claimed that in the nine days following the fall of Phuoc Binh, capital of Phuoc Long, 3,066 Communist soldiers were killed while 484 government troops died and 1,661 were wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDOCHINA: Bloody Peace | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...heaviest main-force fighting took place in the provinces of Thua Thien and Binh Dinh, several hundred miles northeast of Saigon, where government troops tried to block Communist efforts to push into rice-rich coastal regions. Viet Cong shells fell intermittently on several towns like Bien Hoa near Saigon while south of the capital, in the economically crucial Mekong Delta, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in small-unit action disrupted river and road communications and raided small government outposts in an effort to push Saigon's men back into provincial capitals and district towns. Saigon's response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDOCHINA: Bloody Peace | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

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