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...Halfway Up the Tree-closed in New York after only 72 performances. The other, Wise Child, has already closed in London, despite a strong cast headed by Sir Alec Guinness. A kinky, comic and slightly sinister play by Simon Gray, Wise Child presented Guinness as a criminal on the lam, disguised as a woman. He is being blackmailed by a weirdo youth who carries out the pretense of being his son; the boy, in turn, is being pursued by a homosexual hotel manager. "Very murky waters indeed," said the Times...
...rooting out the NVA, who reportedly were being guided and fed by Hué students. In the twisting alleyways of the old city, digging out the Communists turned out to be a tough task. After two days of combat, President Thieu phoned ARVN I Corps Commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam and demanded that he get Hué back in allied hands?and "get it back fast...
...Lam and U.S. Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. knew how to get it back fast, but only at the cost of reducing it to ruins, and turning much of Viet Nam's heritage to crumbled stone. So the Skyraiders, wheeling and diving over Hué in support of the allied counterattack, at first used only guns and rockets no larger than 2.5 in. in order to protect the city's buildings and royal tombs and monuments. When after four days the Communists still held more than half the city, heritage was reluctantly sacrificed to necessity and the bombs loosed...
What They Can Do. Nothing can save Nguyen Phat Luom's right eye, destroyed by a grenade, but Boston doctors are building him a prosthetic hand, powered by muscles in his upper arm. Tran Van Lam, 13, will get artificial legs. Nguyen Thi Thuy, 7, has her left arm temporarily attached to her face so that its skin may provide her with new lips to replace those blown away. Nguyen Van Ba, 14, no longer has testes, but a bomb-blasted urethra has been repaired...
...Fuel. Of the six MIG bases in the North, only the one at Gia Lam, which is also Hanoi's commercial airport, has not been bombed-but no more than ten MIGs can operate from Gia Lam. As a result, while 90% of the North Vietnamese force was once kept in the North, about 80% of it is now based across the border in China. The Peitun-Yunnani base in Southwest China harbors not only about 50 MIGs but eight Russian Ilyushin medium bombers not yet used in the war. None of the MIGs have yet flown...