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...abandon much of its territory to the Communist forces, sending long lines of forlorn refugees stumbling southward from northern provinces and the Central Highlands. They were joined by demoralized ARVN soldiers, whose rushed retreat was aimed strategically, and perhaps wisely, at reinforcing the defenses of Saigon and the Mekong Delta...
...swarm of shining Navy combat jets parked five abreast, and beyond them, a row of Grumman Tracers with radar mounted like toadstools on top. Elsewhere are scores of F-4 Phantom IIs, looking like hooded hawks, their cockpit windows sprayed with a protective plastic, and squadrons of F-102 Delta Dagger fighter-interceptors...
Even a successful job search can exhaust a person's resources. Charles Kent Evans, 48, lost a $25,000-per-year job as vice president of Delta, Inc., a manufacturing firm in Jonesboro, Ark. Looking for a new post, he was willing to accept a cut to as low as $9,000. He sent out 100 resumes, listed himself with five employment agencies, got written recommendations from his Senators, J. William Fulbright and John McClellan. Still, it took him 18 months to find work, as director of the Arkansas State Nurses Association. During his ordeal, he depleted his life...
...Kulthum was born into a peasant family at Timay el Zahaira in the Nile Delta, where she developed her unique style by chanting Koranic verses for her father. When he took her to Cairo to sing, she was an instant success. Not only was her voice strong, but she perfected a technique of rephrasing passages-she once sang a single line 52 different ways-that drove audiences to rapture. Her repertoire ranged from love songs to political ballads to adaptations of Moslem poetry, including Omar Khayyam's Rubdiydt...
...Military Region Two, which encompasses the central part of South Viet Nam, the key cities of Pleiku and Kontum are fortress outposts in an area controlled by highly mobile North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units. In the rice-rich Mekong Delta south of Saigon, where more than one-third of South Viet Nam's population lives, Communist attacks have driven government troops out of many outposts. At the same time, a blocking maneuver aimed toward Route 4 by North Vietnamese troops threatens Saigon's vital connection with the Delta...