Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE 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...
Thus came the allies' all-but-decisive blow to recapture the scene of the fiercest and most costly battle of the Vietnamese war to date, a battle so unlike any that had gone before it in the war that allied forces had to learn by doing. During the four...
Giap's new barrages came while South Viet Nam was grappling to regain a measure of normalcy amid the death and devastation from the first at tacks on 35 population centers. Though some fighting still went on in Saigon's environs and even heightened in the old imperial...
Tattered Treasures. Writhing in the agony of prolonged battle, once-lovely Hue remained the only city in South Viet Nam where the V.C. flag still flew. Ten days of bitter street fighting cleared -at least temporarily-the modern residential section south of the Perfume River, but the battle raged with...
CRIMINAL JUSTICE End for a Klan Klawyer Whenever Ku Klux Klansmen needed legal aid in Mississippi, they invariably turned to Lawyer Travis Buckley. A cocky, stocky, pugnacious little man with jug ears, Buckley, 35, was chief defense attorney in last October's trial of Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, Neshoba...