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...mortar and rocket attack with an assault. Within two hours the city had largely become quiet again. The Communists also shelled, among other cities, Hué, Pleiku, Can Tho, Kontum, My Tho and Quang Tri. Four U.S. Marines were killed and six wounded when five mortar rounds hit the Danang headquarters of Marine Commander Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman...
...Soviet-made, self-propelled 122-mm. rocket, whose seven-mile range has snatched every sanctuary away from the allies. The 122 has hit every major U.S. installation except Cam Ranh Bay at least once; its 42-lb. warhead has destroyed scores of parked U.S. planes, pockmarked runways from Danang to Tan Son Nhut. It has also been used against most cities, striking dread into the South Vietnamese. They denounce it as a terror weapon because, like most rockets, it is not very accurate at long range and sometimes crashes into civilian areas instead of hitting nearby military targets...
...allies are making major efforts to improve security along the highways and waterways; two weeks ago the first truck convoy since Tet, bearing relief goods for Hué, moved up the vital Highway 1 from Danang to the stricken city. In the face of the massive Communist threat throughout the corps, little else but mobile defense is being undertaken. Some 2,000 civilian volunteers are being armed in Hué, Danang, Quang Tri City and other cities as "people's self-defense forces...
...rage at the Khe Sanh airstrip that wounded both the co-producer of his show, Russ Bensley, and CBS Cameraman John Smith. Neither Smith nor Bensley, who was filling in for an injured CBS sound man at the time, was seriously hurt. But three days later, after evacuation to Danang, Producer Bensley was wounded again during a rocket attack. His colon was ruptured and his spleen had to be removed. "The irony of it," said CBS Correspondent Don Webster, reporting from the hospital, "is that for several weeks now we've been planning to do a report about...
...Nowhere to Hide." The big trouble is that even a rotation system such as NBC's - a stint working out of Danang, then equal time in Saigon - no longer affords a man any rest. Says NBC's New York-based News Operations Head Bill Corrigan: "There's nowhere to hide any more. There are no soft assignments." A newsman is in action from the moment his plane touches down at Tan Son Nhut Airport...