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...after a victory that would completely smash the will of the U.S. to continue a hard and dirty war of rising casualties and fitful overall progress in bringing South Viet Nam to where it can defend itself. Around Khe Sanh he has ringed 40,000 troops. Northward is grouped his 325C Division, to the south lies the 304. To the east lies the 324B and another division, and to the southeast there are elements of a fifth division. Across the Laotian border and north of the 17th parallel are Giap's Russian-made 152-mm. howitzers...
What ever happened to the saber-toothed tiger, the dire wolf, the mammoth, the giant beaver, and more than 100 other species of large mammals that once inhabited North America? All that paleontologists know for sure is that about 10,000 years ago, as glaciers retreated northward into Canada during the Late Pleistocene epoch, these animals suddenly became extinct. Their demise, many scientists believe, was caused either by sudden climatic change -which upset their breeding season and produced a lethal sterility-or simply by winter weather, which ironically may have become increasingly severe as the glaciers waned...
...Last week, as they poked their heads out of their muddy dugouts, the Marines at Con Thien noticed an unusual absence of the harsh hiss of incoming shells. U.S. aerial reconnaissance found out why: in groups of 10 and 15, North Vietnamese regulars were spotted making their way northward out of the DMZ, leaving behind some abandoned gun emplacements. Plagued by problems of supply and outgunned by the U.S. response, which daily included at least 5,000 artillery shells and 1,000 tons of bombs dropped from B-52s, the North Vietnamese, at least for the moment, drastically reduced their...
...Viet Cong function as part of a massive, well-oiled machine with controls that stretch northward from the smallest hamlet all the way to Hanoi. Their stubborn skills in the use and abuse of the Vietnamese people have been honed by decades of practice, starting with the Viet Minh guerrillas of Ho Chi Minh, who finally defeated the French in 1954. The Geneva accords that same year partitioned the country into North and South Viet Nam, a partition that Ho assumed would last only until he won a plebiscite on reunification that was scheduled...
Addison acknowledged the message, but never made the northward turn-whether for lack of time, out of misunderstanding of the instruction, or because of a mechanical malfunction may never be known. When the collision occurred, at one minute after noon, the Piedmont Airlines plane, which had just left the airport, was climbing right on course...