Word: hu
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...have led the command of General William Westmoreland to revise its estimates of the likely next big move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother the allies. Surrounded by open country, Hu...
...also far easier to supply from the sea via the Perfume River. The U.S. and the South Vietnamese army have some 20,000 men within a dozen-mile radius of Hué. They hope that Giap will try to take the city again...
Ready for Anything. The U.S. command does not rule out the possibility that the Communists might hit at Khe Sanh and Hué simultaneously, or indeed throughout Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces. To be ready for anything, General Westmoreland last week announced the creation in the north of Provisional Corps Viet Nam, to be headed by Army Lieut. General William B. Rosson, 49. Rosson will have battle command of all actions in the two provinces, but will report to Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., the Marines' commander in Viet Nam. The Marines had been riled...
...city, the seat of Viet Nam's government and a center of its learning during the 19th century. There stood the palace complex, with its graceful red and gold buildings and pagoda roofing, its grounds of tall shade trees and frangipani, and its collections of bleu d'Hué porcelain. It was the most beautiful section of Hué still standing. It was also an eerie place to die, and its Communist defenders evidently decided to get out while they could. They left behind an unexploded shell near the fragile imperial throne, a cache of rifles and ammunition...
...Revolutionary Development Teams have been pulled into cities for their own safety and to aid the urban refugees; few of those remaining are able to move out on pacification tasks. In some areas, supposed pacification has been exposed as cunning window dressing. The fortified villages outside Hué, which until Tet were considered showplaces of pacification in I Corps, last week resupplied the North Vietnamese defenders inside the city. So hostile has rural Viet Nam turned that last week the International Voluntary Services, whose teachers and agricultural advisers have scrupulously tried to work independently of the war, regretfully announced that...