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Such fighting as there is consists largely of mortar attacks on South Vietnamese positions, mining roads, placing booby traps and occasional kidnapings of village and hamlet chiefs. While the North Vietnamese army has moved in additional men and materiel, it does not seem interested in launching a major offensive soon. Rather, it appears to be restoring what it expended during the 1972 spring fighting and hardening its grip on what...
...Communist mortar shell recently dropped right into a new compound being prepared for the ICCS, killing one workman and injuring three others. "We really were not in great danger," said one of the Canadians, "because the Communists knew every inch of this ground. If they had wanted to hit us, they could have. I think they were simply trying to frighten us away...
...Walking Tours of Cambridge dismisses the building at 14 Plympton Street in about half a sentence, giving short shrift to its "neo-Georgian" design, and saying that Lampy's castle "puts to shame the Crimson Building." Harvard's semi-official book on it own architecture, Education, Bricks, and Mortar, doesn't mention the building at all, Newspaper buildings by and large are rough, functional structures, which serve a practical daily purpose and expedite the production of their publications. Few of them win architecture awards, and none of them can approach in grandeur the Lampoon's pleasure dome. The Crimson...
During the height of the siege, at least 1,000 artillery, rocket and mortar shells a day rained down on An Loc; one day the number reached 8,000. Colonel Nguyen Van Biet had 1,115 men in his Ranger Group 3 when the Communists launched their first attack last April. After three months of fighting, all but 346 were either dead or wounded. The shelling of the city has stopped, but An Loc is still surrounded by enemy troops, and the fighting continues...
...city's civilian population, at least 1,000, and perhaps as many as 7,000, have been killed. Most of the others braved Communist mortar and artillery fire to escape last summer, and today are sheltered in refugee camps...