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Three Offensives. How long would the North Vietnamese drive continue? In Tet '68, the Communists pursued a series of three offensives, each of which faded after five or six weeks as supplies were exhausted and losses from U.S. counteroffensives mounted. Ranking U.S. officials in Saigon expect a similar pattern this time around. In their view, the current fighting will begin to fade in three to four weeks, as the North Vietnamese withdraw to their sanctuaries to regroup and resupply. Despite the onset of the monsoon rains, which are due to begin in most of the country next month...
Suddenly the optimism and euphoria began to fade. VC sappers dynamited a culvert on Highway 13, five miles north of Lai Khe, shattering the comforting illusion that the road was safe. Two patrols of airborne troopers marching toward An Loc were badly mauled in ambushes. Then at 11 a.m. the next day, enemy rockets and mortar shells pelted the column's artillery. ARVN tanks blazed back furiously, but with little success. An ARVN tank was hit by a B40 rocket and exploded into a blazing wreck. Tac air was called in, and for 40 minutes, VNAF Skyraiders...
...feudal system that allows swift retribution with no red tape. In part, it simply appeals to the antibureaucratic impulse, the secret instinct that things can be "fixed," even in satisfyingly violent ways. For the moment, many still find the Mob romantically sinister and enterprising, but the popular infatuation may fade now that the bodies are real...
...league in homers with 179, and scored more runs than anybody except Baltimore. Norm Cash, Al Kaline, and Aurelio Rodriguez will have to repeat fine years if Detroit is to stay close to the Orioles. Otherwise the Tigers could be in trouble. Look for them to stay close, but fade in September...
...year-old will cross the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to accept a special Academy Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." As the old comedian concludes his valedictory and ambles to the wings, an epoch will fade out. The ambivalent skirmish between Chaplin and the United States can be ended at last...