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Beyond Korea. Clearly, the Communists' Tet offensive had much to do with the groundswell of pessimism. An unremitting stream of TV clips and still photographs-such as LIFE'S classic shot of wounded U.S. Marines stacked aboard a tank in Hue-daily underscored the war's horror. Since the widespread attacks began on Jan. 31, the U.S. has lost an average of 500 men a week, pushing the overall casualty total-Americans killed in action or wounded-since the beginning of 1961 above Korean War totals...
Viet Nam's northernmost corps, unwilling host to some 55,000 North Vietnamese invaders, is less a pacification prospect than an open battlefield. It was there that the 24-day battle for Hue took place, the most determined of the Communists' 35 attacks on South Vietnamese cities. Some 5,350 civilians were killed in all, including 4,100 in Hué; another 4,500 were seriously injured. The existing refugee ranks of 250,000 were swelled by an additional 107,000, some 90,000 of these from Hue alone-out of the city's pre-Tet population...
...losses since Tet become clear: 14,300 civilians dead, 24,000 wounded, 72,000 houses destroyed, 627,000 new refugees. Of the 35 cities hit, ten suffered major damage: Kontum, Pleiku, Ban Me Thuot, My Tho, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Chau Doc, Can Tho, Saigon and Hue. CORDS officials estimate that 13 of the country's 44 provinces were so badly hit that pacification has been set back to where it stood at the beginning of 1967. In an additional 16 provinces, it will take three to six months to get the program working again. Only...
...adolescent, and 16-year-old Ian is so highly talented that her condescension is all the harder to take. Yet her talent usually wins in the end. This album contains some of her most felicitous efforts since Society's Child. Her young, flutelike voice adds just the right hue of blues to the suicidal notes of Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind, and for a change she breaks up in giggles while satirizing country music...
...Citadel of Hue resembled nothing so much as the ruins of Monte Cassino after allied bombs had reduced it to rubble. An avalanche of bricks littered the streets and open spaces, and loose piles of masonry provided cover for both sides in the battle for the fortress. With every explosion of bomb or shell, the air turned red with choking brick dust. Having fought through Hué block by block, house by house, then yard by yard, the U.S. Marines were now engaged in what a company commander called a "brick-by-brick fight" to drive the North Vietnamese forces...