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Resistance. The North Vietnamese still have plenty of firepower in the area. Soon after the ARVN drive on Quang Tri city began, the Communists began shelling the former imperial capital of Hue, 30 miles south, with rockets, mortars and artillery, damaging the string of South Vietnamese fire bases that form a defense line southwest of Hue...
There are two revolving dishes. The fish in green sauce is various morsels of halibut, sarimp and scallops swimming in a delicate sauce of wine and cream, and given an Irish hue with parsley. It was so liquid I asked for a spoon to eat with. The dish is slight, but unusual and pleasing. They have stopped serving the chicken cooked in chocolate, but if it returns it will make you reconsider the uses of chocolate...
Thirty miles to the south, the North Vietnamese sent scores of heavy rocket and artillery rounds crashing into Hue and defense posts on its southern and western perimeter. However, the shellings were not followed up by any attempt to take the old imperial capital...
What have the North Vietnamese accomplished in the current offensive? They have failed so far to capture Hue -although it is still not certain that seizing the city was one of Giap's basic strategic goals-but they have otherwise scored some substantial gains. They have badly hurt the South Vietnamese forces to the extent of 70,000 casualties. They have, moreover, re-established the presence of their own army inside South Viet Nam, thereby defeating ARVN'S two-year effort to keep the North Vietnamese regulars bottled up in Cambodia and Laos. Between April 1 and August...
...sweet as a tropical fruit. On the main streets the traffic was mostly military. On the side streets there was no traffic at all. Houses were closed and shuttered. Schools were deserted, shops closed, restaurants barricaded. Only a few sampans plied the Perfume River. Some of the buildings of Hue University were used to house refugees. Once a day a dump truck arrived loaded with loaves of flyspecked 'welfare' bread. Each family of five was given one loaf a day, and nothing more. 'All the people with enough money have gone,' one middle-aged refugee told...