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...North Vietnamese went all put last week to make that impression stick. In a series of chest-beating radio broadcasts, Hanoi urged the Communist forces in South Viet Nam to "take advantage of our victory in Laos" by mounting "any action, large or small." Mortar, artillery and rocket fire continued to pepper Khe Sanh, Vandergrift and other bases near the DMZ, while bloody ground assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen...
...minutes later, after Schulte had drifted back to his bunker, the base exploded. Hundreds of mortar shells arced down out of the moonless sky with uncanny accuracy. Hunkered down in their bunkers, the G.I.s never even saw the 50 or so North Vietnamese sappers who slipped through the perimeter wire, wearing nothing but shorts, black grease and strings of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). One group wiped out the 155-mm. howitzers, another tossed tear gas grenades and satchel charges into the TOC, killing or wounding virtually everyone inside. Methodically, the others went from bunker to bunker, blowing them with satchel...
North of Khe Sanh, some 20,000 Communist troops were poised above the Demilitarized Zone, while inside the DMZ the Communists massed a formidable array of tanks, mortar batteries, rockets, antiaircraft guns and heavy 152-mm. howitzers with an elevenmile range. The buildup-biggest in the DMZ since the 1968 bombing halt-might have been a reaction to allied hints that an invasion of North Viet Nam might be attempted if Lam Son were to turn sour. But some U.S. officers, fearful that it foreshadowed a period of relentless Communist shelling and possibly a fullblown invasion, rushed 7,000 additional...
...what many Americans consider ARVN's top infantry division, the 1st. Moreover, the operation underscored continuing deficiencies in crucial areas like communications. American pilots had problems with Vietnamese ground controllers, who have a tough time pronouncing words like "coordinate"-or speaking English at all while ducking rocket and mortar fire...
...Gruson, said that M. I. T. plans to build over 1600 units of housing over the next few years. To this, as to Gruson before him, Vellucci leaned forward and said, "Well... so far I don't see too much going on. I want to see bricks and mortar. Bricks and mortar, you hear...