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...their area. Correspondent Burt Pines pursued the psychological aspects with doctors and chaplains at U.S. Army headquarters in Long Binh, while Stringer Harold Ellithorpe, a Viet Nam veteran, contributed the comments of Red Cross officials plus his own observations on brutality in the war. Correspondent Bob Anson, bucking stormy monsoon weather, flew to My Lai in central Viet Nam, viewed the rubble of the hamlet, and talked to survivors of the massacre. Clark, meanwhile, in addition to interviewing military officers, spent much time poring over captured documents detailing the elaborate terrorism apparatus maintained by the enemy...
...seldom reported war in Laos ebbs and flows with the seasons. In dry weather, the Communist Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies go on the offensive. During the monsoon rains, the more mobile Royal Laotian Army is trucked or helicoptered into battle and usually regains what has been previously lost...
...scenario was rewritten last spring, when the Communists mounted an un precedented monsoon offensive, captured the town of Muong Soui and threatened to drive all the way to the Mekong River. Now the scenario has been modified further. In an operation launched amidst extraordinary secrecy early this month, Royal Laotian troops mounted a two-pronged attack against the Plain of Jars in the northeast, and against Communist units guarding the Ho Chi Minh Trail in central Laos. Last week, for the first time in five years, government forces were in control of part of the broad Plain of Jars...
This time, however, the old seasonal formula no longer worked. Despite the rains and monsoon-swept lines of communication, seven North Vietnamese battalions, backed by ten Soviet-built light tanks, fell on Muong Soui in late June, catching the garrison completely off guard. U.S. airpower was not enough to stop the Communists. For a while, the government's defenders held onto a new position on Route 7, but were pushed out again after losing all of their big guns. Five days after the battle began, the Laotians evacuated Muong Soui. Later efforts to retake it failed...
...expertise: he had never climbed in the Himalayas. Neither had the other U.S. members of his team, though all were skilled climbers. Everett was determined to scale Dhaulagiri I by its knifelike southeast ridge, a route never before attempted. He was racing a deadline: because the arrival of monsoon rains in early June would make further climbing immensely risky, the climb had to be accomplished in April and May. The team gathered in Katmandu early last month, flew to the hill town of Pokhara, then hiked toward Dhaulagiri. By mid-April, they had established their first camp...