Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUTH VIET NAM'S Quang Tri province, which was overrun by North Vietnamese forces last April, became a symbol of ARVN's humiliating setback in the early days of the Communists' current Easter offensive. Last week, as forward elements of a South Vietnamese force of 20,000 men fought its way back into the provincial capital, there were signs that Quang Tri might also become a symbol of South Viet Nam's military resurgence...
...with his earlier statement. But it is also conceivable that the South Vietnamese, surprised by the initial weakness of the Communist resistance, changed their minds in mid-offensive and launched an all-out effort to recapture Quang Tri city, the only provincial capital lost to the Communists in the Easter offensive...
Even an all-out military drive would not enable Thieu to wipe out the North Vietnamese gains. Despite their failure to capture Hué, Kontum and An Loc, the Communists have achieved many objectives of their Easter offensive. Besides inflicting heavy casualties on several ARVN divisions, they have very nearly undermined the all-important Vietnamization program and paralyzed pacification efforts in much of the countryside. They have once again staked out large swatches of territory in South Viet Nam's historically vulnerable regions. Though the Communists control only a small percentage of the South's population, the offensive...
...growing lodging chain. Wherever he may be-paddling down the Amazon in a canoe, riding along the Riviera in a Mercedes or poring over maps in his computer-crammed headquarters at Memphis-Kemmons Wilson is always seeking new sites. "Looking for land," he says, "is like going on an Easter egg hunt, and sometimes you find the golden...
...DeVoss is TIME'S youngest reporter in Viet Nam. He arrived there in January, when combat was relatively light. After the North Vietnamese began their Easter offensive, he covered major action all over South Viet Nam and became a virtual commuter on Route 13, which runs between Saigon and An Loc. He would set out from the capital in the morning by car to cover the progress of the South Vietnamese 21 st Division as it fought its way with agonizing slowness toward An Loc and the relief of the garrison encircled there...