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...biggest crush came in Danang, which swelled to nearly twice its normal population of 400,000 with refugees from the northern provinces after the fall of Quang Tri May 1. Fragments of families fill schools, pagodas, churches and old U.S. military barracks. Though the government distributes rice, there is never enough to eat, and women can be seen selling penny candy, gum, flashlight batteries, salt-anything to turn a small profit to fill out the spartan diet. When the bread trucks come, covered with flies, young boys sneak up, reach in and steal an extra loaf for their families...
...occurs, it is universally agreed, it could prove to be crucial-to the shape of a settlement, if there is one, and to the future of Thieu and the Nixon policy in any case. Strategically, the fall of Hué would put Communist artillery within range of nearby Danang and its sprawling U.S. airbase. Psychologically, Hué's loss could lead to demoralization and collapse of South Viet Nam. "The impact would be like that of Dien Bien Phu," a high South Vietnamese official told TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel last week. "It would make clear that not even...
...rapidly assembling one of history's most powerful naval armadas in the Gulf of Tonkin. It was shipping M48 tanks into Danang, landing tank-destroying, guided-missile helicopters from West Germany, reopening a bomber base in Thailand. Fresh fighter-bombers winged into the theater, bringing to 1,000 the number of U.S. planes poised to strike North Viet Nam. The gathering force had been ordered into place by a U.S. President who seemed determined either to blunt the Communist offensive that threatened to overpower such key South Vietnamese cities as Hué and Kontum, or to punish the North...
...SOLDIER were painted on the walls of the modern Kieu Mau school. Stores were closed, restaurants empty, and much of the population-200,000 in normal times, more than 300,000 early last week as refugees from the fighting around Quang Tri jammed into the city-had fled to Danang or other points south. Most went on foot, but some paid an extra $50 to Air Viet Nam ticket agents to get aboard outbound planes...
...school movement" in Hanoi. Before he was 30, he was helping Ho Chi Minh organize his revolution from a base in China. Though he once taught school in Hanoi, Giap was no bookstack scholar. Two years ago, Giap's foster father, a South Vietnamese Red Cross official in Danang, discussed Giap with British Orientalist P.J. Honey. "He was brilliant, extremely interested in warfare along the lines of Napoleonic strategy, but quarrelsome," said the old man. "He'll get near to the top but never to the very top because he makes so many enemies...