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...goes on in South Viet Nam-a bitter, stalemated war of attrition, fought mostly on the ground between North and South Vietnamese troops struggling for favorable positions prior to a possible ceasefire. Recently, TIME Correspondents David Aikman and Donald Neff visited the sites of two of the longest and bloodiest battles that stemmed from the Communists' Easter offensive: Quang Tri, capital of South Viet Nam's northernmost province, and An Loc, another provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon. Their reports...
...Kissinger in tow, with not a word to the country or the world about Viet Nam. But the President's message to the enemy was as unmistakable as it was brutal. First he ordered a new seeding of North Vietnamese harbors with mines. Then he launched the biggest, bloodiest air strikes ever aimed at the North. Nixon seemed determined to bomb Hanoi into a settlement that he is willing to accept. As the old year gave way to the new, the Nixon-Kissinger design that only a few short weeks ago had seemed to be irresistibly leading...
...battle for Quang Tri turned into one of the longest and bloodiest of the war. Last week, after two battalions of South Vietnamese marines scrambled over the nearly demolished battlements of the citadel, the Saigon government announced that Quang Tri had at last been retaken...
...guard hostages at the maximum-security prison outside Attica, N.Y., lay dead or dying in the early morning drizzle. Last week, one year after the massacre, a nine-member special commission created by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller issued its report* on what happened before, during and after the bloodiest prison riot in U.S. history. Headed by N.Y.U. Law Dean Robert B. McKay, the commission interviewed 1,600 inmates, as well as 400 guards and hundreds of state troopers and National Guardsmen. Among its blunt, plain-spoken conclusions...
BELFAST--Eight persons, including a retarded 15-year-old Cathoic body shot in his bed, died in continuing violence Wednesday and Thursday in one of the bloodiest 24-hour periods since a two week ceasefire ended Sunday...