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...been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real shocker was the swiftness of the fall of Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city and the onetime center of U.S. Marine operations in Viet Nam. The weekend announcement by Saigon officials that the city had been overrun by the Communists marked the South's greatest single defeat of the war. The Thieu government had now abandoned or been forced from more than half...
...scarcely a fight. Leaderless, demoralized troops dropped their weapons and joined hundreds of thousands of civilians in a panicky southward flight. In the most stunning Communist victory in more than two decades, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops and tanks on Sunday overran Danang, the country's second largest city. According to reports by South Vietnamese officials, this victory gives the Communists nearly complete control of the entire northern half of South Viet Nam; Saigon's forces now hold only a number of coastal enclaves, and it is only a matter of time before they, too, fall...
...tough for him to get enough delegates to win on the first ballot of the national convention. Says a top aide to Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss: "I can see the convention going to the seventh or eighth ballot, with Scoop Jackson and George Wallace holding the largest blocs of delegates, but neither able to make it over the top, and neither willing to give in. Then I can see the convention turning to Kennedy - and I can see him accepting the nomination...
...Rome's Palazzo dello Sport, Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, 52, explained the significance of the compromise in a 3½-hour keynote addressed to the 1,124 Italian delegates at the congress. It was Berlinguer who two years ago first proposed the idea that Italy's second largest party should become a partner in the government, after 30 years of opposition. Berlinguer argued that Communist participation in a government with other parties was essential "for the future of Italian democracy." He did not spell out the specific terms under which the party would enter such a government...
...Amniotic fluid studies, which were used in development of the two vaccines and involved the largest number of fetuses, were experiments aimed at helping particular fetuses and are therefore not now at issue...