Word: nickel
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...would put Communist artillery within range of nearby Danang and its sprawling U.S. airbase. Psychologically, Hué's loss could lead to demoralization and collapse of South Viet Nam. "The impact would be like that of Dien Bien Phu," a high South Vietnamese official told TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel last week. "It would make clear that not even the best ARVN troops can defend the major cities and population centers. That's why the whole war may be decided in the next two or three weeks." Thieu is known to fear that if the Communists were to take...
Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, meanwhile, went to Guam to interview B-52 crews who have been raiding North Viet Nam. Vietnamization may have relieved American infantrymen of the heaviest fighting, but the war is now as grueling and dangerous as ever for flyers, sailors-and newsmen...
From Guam, TIME's Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel reports on one B-52's mission over North Viet...
Rooftop Rifles. Frank Gracia, head of a drug-rehabilitation program in the Southeast Bronx, became aware of the gangs six months ago. He told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We had this street fair, selling sausages for a dime, sodas for a nickel. Well, these kids got in an argument with one of our people, broke his arm and all his fingers. Then they sent their girls over to tell us they wanted to fight us. Now, hell, I've been around. I was in gangs in the '50s. I was a junkie for 15 years before I kicked...
...step down early this summer, said that his government is responding to the Chinese-American rapprochement by attempting to achieve a new relationship of its own with China. "What really concerns me is that we have no means of making contact with Peking," he told Correspondents Jerrold Schecter, Herman Nickel and S. Chang. Sato eagerly questioned Schecter, who had just visited China, about his impressions, then spoke of the foreign policy dilemma facing his country...