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...spot check by the head nurse revealed that patients from eleven different civilian bombing incidents-many involving multiple deaths-were recovering in two of the hospital's largest wards. To be sure, the bombing victims represent only part of the war casualties. Others are suffering from mortar wounds, Communist-fired B40 rockets and AK-47 rifles; some do not know what hit them...
There seems to be little choice for students and faculty at Harvard but to become adapted to the Science Center. For if the brick-and-mortar structure of Massachusetts Hall has lasted for 250 years without too much trouble, the concrete-and-epoxy Science Center can be expected to be here long after the comfortable, old buildings of the Yard have turned to dust
Correspondents used to contending with Viet Cong rifle and mortar fire must now beware of increasingly accurate heavy artillery fire that can kill at long range. At the same time, the withdrawal of U.S. combat units has reduced both the reliability of battle intelligence and the amount of protection a correspondent can count on. Recalls Associated Press Correspondent Peter Arnett, who started covering Viet Nam in 1962, "When you went out with a U.S. unit, you knew that your ass was covered. You were cared for like an American soldier, and that was very good care indeed...
There were 30,000 civilians in An Loc two months ago. Now there are 2,000. Except for an estimated 1,000 who were killed by the Communist shelling, all the others have left. Thousands of refugees have fled down Highway 13, braving enemy mortar fire. Those who remain are huddled under a ridge to the east of the city in a village called Phu Due. There are no gun positions in Phu Due, no targets of military significance. Yet since fighting died down in the city itself at the beginning of June, an increasing percentage of the artillery shells...
...withstood a battering given to no other city in this war. The worst day was May 11, when an estimated 7,000 rounds of artillery, mortar and rocket fire hit an area that can easily be walked across in ten minutes. Said one U.S. adviser: "Those were days when healthy men were taking antidiarrhea tablets to keep from having to go outside. Nature's calls seemed a lot easier to resist...