Word: hued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy T-54s of World War II vintage), artillery (up to modern 130-mm. guns with a 19-mile range) and even SA-2 missiles. By week's end, as the northern fighting settled down to a wary probing of defenses around Quang Tri city and Hué, the offensive boiled up in other areas...
...ferocity of the initial North Vietnamese barrage, retreat made sense. But it was not sensibly executed. Some units quit the field so quickly that they failed to spike their guns. Many 3rd Division soldiers joined the 50,000 refugees who fled south for sanctuary in Quang Tri and Hu...
...Hué, the ancient Vietnamese imperial capital, is presumed to be a prime target of the Communist invasion. So far, the North Vietnamese have been unable to slip past Bastogne and Birmingham, the ARVN 1st Division bases that guard the approaches to the city. Last week, Hué had a besieged look, nonetheless. No effort had been made to repair the walls and shrines that had been reduced to ruins four years earlier-the traditional period of mourning in Viet Nam-in the Tet offensive of 1968. At the university, faded signs on walls urged: SMASH THE ATTEMPT TO VIET...
Candy Habits. Outside Kehrli & Co., few career men-and even fewer field-grade officers (major and above)-ever develop a sustained taste for Pleiku Pink, Bleu de Hué, Cambodian-made Park Lane No. 2s, and the myriad other varieties of marijuana that have become freely available in South Viet Nam. But many other military men do. "Nobody raises an eyebrow now if someone suggests that out in the field, where the arm of military law is relatively relaxed, 90% of all noncareer G.I.s smoke grass," reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "It is as common as chewing gum here...
...murders, kidnapings and other terrorist incidents has risen from 654 in January to 1,094 last month. The incidents last week ranged from the shooting of a 47-year-old woman in Saigon by two thugs on a motor bike to a rocket attack on a military prison in Hué that killed 14 soldiers and wounded another...