Word: hues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the South Vietnamese have fought bravely in some sectors, they have caved in elsewhere. The North Vietnamese, heavily supplied by the Soviet Union, are driving hard for Kontum in the Central Highlands, toward Quang Tri near the coast, and are menacing Hue. As the Communists approach urban centers, the U.S. faces another painful decision: whether to continue its air and artillery support at the cost of civilian lives in the cities. The open aggression has signaled a third Indochina war, and it could drag on as inconclusively, as destructively, as hopelessly as the earlier two wars that engaged first...
...night and under clouds that held U.S. and South Vietnamese air attacks to a minimum last week, enemy armor and infantry overran Dong Ha and encircled Quang Tri city. Farther south, battered ARVN troops were driven from long-besieged Firebase Bastogne, opening the way for an enemy drive on Hue, the ancient imperial capital. A drive on Hue, in turn, could pose a direct threat to U.S. troops guarding an American base...
Refugees continued to flee from Hue yesterday as fighting broke out six miles from the city...
Brigadier General Thomas W. Bowen said that a major problem in defending Hue is that North Vietnamese troops and agents will probably infiltrate toward Hue by mingling with refugees pouring south from Quang...
...South Vietnamese army is depending on U.S. air power to play a major part in defending Hue. For the first time in the war, five U.S. aircraft carriers are operating off the coast...