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...cease-fire was preceded by an awesome spasm of violence. Both sides used the 117 hours between the announcement of the agreement and the actual start of the cease-fire to seek last-minute military advantage. The grabbing added up to some of the heaviest fighting since the Easter offensive. Flying from bases in Thailand, Navy carriers offshore and the airbase at Bien Hoa, home of the last U.S. combat unit in Viet Nam (see box), U.S. pilots flew record sorties in an effort to stop the Communist drive. The Viet Cong made some potentially significant last-minute gains, especially...
...Casey. The play tells of the Easter Rising of 1916, a kind of futile miniature war seen through the eyes of the innocent bystanders. O'Casey's tragicomic vision is almost as constant as Shakespeare's, and his ironic sense of people and events moves always through counterpoint. After some fancy blather about "the glory of bloodshed," one sees the terrible reality of a boy dying of a stomach wound. Nora (Roberta Maxwell) pleads desperately with her husband not to go on with the fighting. He leaves her, is killed, and she goes affectingly...
...There aren't many ads now but there'll be a lot by Easter...
...Journal had the staff. The Crimson had the facilities, the business contacts, and the tradition. Since it did not begin publication until after the Easter vacation, the Journal was in a weak position to attract subscribers. In balance, The Crimson had the edge...
...stalemated war of attrition, fought mostly on the ground between North and South Vietnamese troops struggling for favorable positions prior to a possible ceasefire. Recently, TIME Correspondents David Aikman and Donald Neff visited the sites of two of the longest and bloodiest battles that stemmed from the Communists' Easter offensive: Quang Tri, capital of South Viet Nam's northernmost province, and An Loc, another provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon. Their reports...