Word: midweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Kriss. They worked with 18 writers and reporter-researchers from the Nation and World sections, four picture researchers and dozens of correspondents round the world. From Danang, where U.S. Marines first waded ashore into Viet Nam, Correspondent William McWhirter witnessed hysteria as Communist forces surrounded the city. At midweek, McWhirter was ordered out on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon...
...week alone, raising the total number of lost provinces to thirteen (out of 44). First to go were Quang Tin and Quang Ngai in the north. They were followed by Thua Thien; its capital, the old imperial city of Hue, easily fell to the Communists early one morning at midweek. That left only the city of Danang, swollen grotesquely with panicky refugees, as a final enclave in the entire five-province northern area that is referred to as Military Region I (see box, page 33). Some of the government's best units - such as the rangers and the First...
...retreating troops in some cases collapsed completely as officers left their men leaderless or troops simply refused to obey orders. In the coastal city of Tuy Hoa - the destination of tens of thousands of refugees - unruly rangers roved around aimlessly, shooting into homes and further terrifying the people. By midweek the police had gone, the banks were closed, and it was impossible to buy bread or rice...
...midweek, the battle for Ban Me Thuot had become the biggest engagement of the Viet Nam War since the Paris Accords were signed more than two years ago. South Vietnamese pilots flew sortie after sortie, and claimed to have knocked out 46 tanks and dozens of artillery pieces on the city's main streets-accidentally killing Province Commander Luat in the process. Troop-carrying helicopters flew through withering antiaircraft fire and successfully landed ARVN reinforcements east of the city. Each side was estimated to have between 6,000 and 7,000 troops within the embattled city...
...making progress slowly," he told U.S. newsmen as he flew from Aswan to Jerusalem at week's end. He appeared perceptibly relaxed as his Air Force jet settled into a cross-weave routine of flights between Aswan, Tel Aviv and Damascus (see box following page). At midweek he was confident enough about the pace of discussions to undertake a side trip to Ankara, where he discussed the Cyprus situation with Turkish leaders. They displayed a greater willingness to discuss the future of the divided island with the government of Greece, even though the Turks remain angry about a congressionally...