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...cessation of bombing in the North, a war still goes on in South Viet Nam-a bitter, stalemated war of attrition, fought mostly on the ground between North and South Vietnamese troops struggling for favorable positions prior to a possible ceasefire. Recently, TIME Correspondents David Aikman and Donald Neff visited the sites of two of the longest and bloodiest battles that stemmed from the Communists' Easter offensive: Quang Tri, capital of South Viet Nam's northernmost province, and An Loc, another provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon. Their reports...
Nine months ago, when the North Vietnamese first attacked An Loc, President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the city held "at all costs"-and it was. An Loc never fell, reports Neff, but neither did it exactly survive. Once a prosperous commercial hub for the area's rubber plantations, An Loc before the siege had a population of 20,000; today it is a Goya-like portrait of the horrors of war, inhabited by perhaps 250 civilians...
Harvard's Terry Neff followed Radcliffe's victory by directing his boat to five first place finishes to win the Allan L. Priddy trophy and Harvard's second consecutive Freshman New England Fall championship...
...Neff, in his first tournament as a skipper, and crewman Kevan Gaughan guided the Crimson boat past 14 opponents in their bid for the crown. "Terry's performance was outstanding," coach Mike Horn said after the races. "He and the other fine freshmen will keep Harvard in good shape in the future...
Scheduled for December, the sixth and last manned Apollo mission to land on the moon began the long process of gearing up last week as its spacecraft and Saturn rocket were positioned on the launching pad at Cape Kennedy. TIME Correspondent Donald Neff filed this report...