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...American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough ARVN marines and paratroopers blasted their way through narrow alleys in running gun battles with the Viet Cong, 700 to 1,000 of whom were believed still mingling with the city's population...
...allies to recapture the city of Hué from the North Vietnamese units that swept into it two weeks ago. The North Vietnamese had arrived to stay, and students from the University of Hué acted as their guides, in some cases donning the uniform of Viet Cong regulars. As the ancient capital of Viet Nam, Hue was a prime piece of captured real estate for propaganda purposes, and the NVA fought for every inch of it against ARVN troopers and a battalion-size force of U.S. Marines that moved in from the south...
Predawn Derring-Do. Every so often the Marines came across pockets of American civilians, some of whom had been successfully hiding out for nine days. When they liberated the Thua Thien province headquarters, the Marines tore down the Viet Cong flag, one of dozens the Communists had planted throughout the city, and raised the Stars and Stripes. Their commander had told them to run up the South Vietnamese flag, but two Marines had died and two others had been wounded in taking the building; they were not about to be denied the satisfaction of raising their own flag (though...
Vietnamese Skyraiders rent the air with ferocious whines as they dive-bombed sections of the city, notably the Chinese quarter of Cholon, which was honeycombed with Viet Cong. The planes sent refugees scattering in all directions and plumes of smoke shooting into sunny skies that mocked the city's agony. In six of Saigon's nine districts, 24-hour curfews were still in effect, meaning that those districts harbored at least small bands of guerrillas still operating as units. Electricity and telephone service was sporadic, most restaurants and shops remained closed, and Saigon...
...latest Viet Cong offensive in Viet Nam left the U.S. press as divided as ever on the subject of the war. And perhaps even more so. Mostly, the attacks on the cities served as a magnifying lens; doves grew more dovish, hawks more hawkish, undecideds more undecided. Across the country, the division was more or less even between each of the three attitudes...