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...said, all hell broke loose within sight and sound of TIME'S villa. An M-16 rifle was in one hand, Rademaekers said, while he carried on a long-distance teletype "conversation" with Chief of Correspondents Dick Clurman. Somehow, he had to keep an eye cocked for Viet Cong, keep track of the fighting swirling through the city, and deploy his own reportorial forces...
...building in Ba The and headed for a nearby village that had accidentally been bombed by American planes. At almost the same moment that a friend was accepting the award for him at Macalester in St. Paul, Minn., 8,500 miles away, David Gitelson was killed by the Viet Cong...
James Edward Johnson, 23, a Marine veteran of Viet Nam, went home to West Virginia 17 months ago with a Purple Heart and a dream: he wanted to become a state trooper. But Johnson had two problems. One was his right ankle, shattered by a Viet Cong machine-gun slug in April 1966, when he was a sergeant with the 4th Marine Division. With regular exercise, he was able to get into good enough shape to pass the physical. His other problem was less easily solved. Johnson is a Negro, and there were no Negroes- Vietvets or otherwise-among West...
...children, Nguyen Phat Luom and Trang Cuong Viet, who were treated for severe urns and shrapnel wounds at the Beth Israel Hospital in November. Mrs. Moore accompanied the two children back to their families and left Saigon on January 30, only 12 hours before the current Viet Cong offensive began...
Kennedy also deplored the treatment of South Viet Nam's 2,000,000 refugees, who, he said, are becoming increasingly anti-American. "Only a handful," he said, "claimed that they were driven from their homes by the Viet Cong." Kennedy's speech represented a major turn-around of his views since 1965, when he last visited Viet Nam. "Continued optimism cannot be justified," he said. "The objectives we set forth to justify our initial involvement, while still defensible, are now less clear and less attainable than they seemed in the past. The pattern of destruction we are creating...