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...diesel fuel sifts endlessly down, and you are told there are no flights anywhere or the road is closed." Once he had to hitch a ride on a Vietnamese air force plane evacuating wounded marines from Phu Bai. Despite these difficulties,Rauch managed three trips into Hue and a visit to Danang to interview U.S. pilots returning from their combat missions...
...Saigon government, it was imperative that ARVN prove itself able to defend a city that in normal times and good weather, is only a two-hour drive from the capital. The Communists have so far been frustrated in their attempts to capture the old imperial capital of Hue or the city of Quang Tri farther north, and it is believed that An Loc was to have been the seat of a provisional Viet Cong government. It should not have been a difficult target. In Binh Long province, the chief ARVN force was the 10,000-man 5th Division, a weak...
...civilian province chief to the divisional commander and finally to the appropriate artillery battalion. Beyond this, ARVN's divisions are of sharply uneven quality, and its best units are apt to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Last week the crack 1st was resting in Hue while the bungling 3rd bore the brunt of the early fighting...
George McGovern chose to concentrate on New Hampshire, where he scored well, and on Wisconsin, which has a more liberal hue; he wisely played Florida low key. He spent only $90,000 there, visited the state only briefly, and thus was not severely hurt by his low total. McGovern has the handicap of a lackluster speaking style, but his organizational talents showed up well in New Hampshire, and he has been working hard against Muskie for delegates in Illinois. His willingness to face all issues squarely is winning him admirers, but it is also alienating some. He could...
...color painter. In fact my work is just about painting." Nevertheless, color is the overriding content and subject of Zakanych's work. He manipulates it with stunning precision, by dividing the canvas with a grid of close rectangular intervals and then producing tiny, almost imperceptible grades of hue and intensity from one block to the next. The result is "a constant movement across the painting, and up and down. There isn't one color that remains stable; I don't want viewers to be able to lock into a basic color and say, for certain, that this...