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...Sank. The Rock Pile. Hamburger Hill. Con Thien. The faint echoes of these and other bloody battles of the Indochina war rumble across I Corps,* the northernmost military region of South Viet Nam. During last year's Easter offensive, the Communists captured most of the area; today it is the scene of a curious military standoff. Recently TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott visited I Corps-officially known as Military Region I-and cabled this report...
...city that will not be resettled is Quang Tri, which was completely destroyed in the seesaw battles that followed the Easter offensive. It is a modern-day Dresden, with not a single building intact, nor a yelping dog, nor a piece of washing on the line. No one lives there, apart from some members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and a small South Vietnamese army contingent...
Saigon, under U.S. pressure, apparently has accepted these terms. Hanoi too is amenable, perhaps because it has already replaced most of the materiel it expended during the 1972 Easter offensive. The North also seems to have shifted its strategy. Its party line these days is that a great victory has been won, since for the first time in 115 years no foreign troops occupy Viet Nam. Now the revolution must be carried forward by political rather than military means. One Communist directive urges its cadres to work harder at building the economic and political infrastructure by growing rice and making...
...Easter Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban summoned French Ambassador Francis Huré from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to present him with what Eban called "documentary evidence" that 18 of the 70 Mirages that France has so far delivered to Libya had been flown to Egypt. Eban said later that he had supplied the French with the number of the planes, the dates of their transfer, their present location, as well as proof that ground installations for controlling the Mirages in flight have been put up at the Egyptian airbase at Almaza, east of Cairo...
Spring came early to Hanover, N.H., this year. The icebergs actually melted in the Connecticut River before the first crew race. The crocuses came up before Easter. And so, when the Harvard track team travels to Hanover today, it can leave its earmuffs and mittens behind...