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...Heartland. The great Communist force that was thought to be in the area never materialized. The Communists could have heard of the as sault's imminence through an intelligence breach, could have been expecting a U.S. drive in that area anyway, or could simply have decamped when the first bombers appeared. "If we get in there and don't kill anybody and don't find anything, it will be embarrassing," said Lieut. General Jonathan O. Seaman, commander of the operation, expressing disappointment at the first results. "Sometimes knowing what isn't there can be valuable...
General Seaman felt that it was too early to assess the full value of the drive, which will probably continue for three weeks. At any rate, if it accomplishes nothing else, Operation Junction City* will have let the Viet Cong know that U.S. troops can enter their heartland at will and destroy their fortifications and supplies. "I would hate to be a VC," said General Seaman, "and know that I have no safe haven in South Viet Nam any more...
...writes: "This book will stimulate an awareness that the Heartland's history is neither dull nor dead, but an exciting tribute to the people of the region-a people who are a little less than the angels, but always trying to do better...
...America will total twelve volumes and cover all 50 states, region by region (further information is available from TIME-LIFE Books, Time & Life Building, Chicago, Ill. 60611). Consulting editor for the series is Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard. The second volume, The Heartland, written by TIME Associate Editor Robert McLaughlin, covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. It will be published in March, and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, for one, is already excited about...
...heartland of South Viet Nam is not the barren highlands and bamboo valleys north of Saigon, where U.S. forces have fought the war's fiercest battles, but the swampy southern tip that is sluiced by the Mekong River. The Delta is the dwelling place of more than a third of the country's population, the rice basket for half of its food-and the Viet Cong's prime source of men, money and supplies. The Communists very nearly seized it all in the grim months of late 1964 and early 1965 before the U.S. buildup. District towns...