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...cities. Some 5,350 civilians were killed in all, including 4,100 in Hué; another 4,500 were seriously injured. The existing refugee ranks of 250,000 were swelled by an additional 107,000, some 90,000 of these from Hue alone-out of the city's pre-Tet population of 130,000. Three-fourths of the 12,000 houses destroyed and the 10,000 heavily damaged were in Hue; destruction was made easier, of course, by the fact that in many parts of I Corps, as elsewhere in Viet Nam, houses are often primitive and fragile structures...
Largely because of interdicted roads and waterways, business and commerce throughout I Corps is down some 20%. Pre-Tet, me pacification program embraced fewer than 300 of the corps' 4,000 hamlets. Even so, two-thirds of the Revolutionary Development pacification teams had to abandon their assigned hamlets when the shooting started. Some 80 R.D. teams have since gone back to their hamlets...
...civilian dead in II Corps total 1,100, the wounded 4,000, the new refugees 103,000. Some 12,000 houses were destroyed and another 4,000 heavily damaged. The security of the corps' road network is about the same as pre-Tet, but that is not saying much; even then, an armed convoy was needed to traverse all major roads. Sixty of the 252 R.D. teams assigned to hamlets are still out of position, unable to go back because security cannot be guaranteed them. One area abandoned: the coastal strip just north of Qui Nhon...
Estimates of damage and casualties in the Delta are spottier than elsewhere, because even pre-Tet the government's control was a sometime thing. Of the 5,274 hamlets in IV Corps, 2,000 were under Saigon's rule, 2,000 under that of the Viet Cong and the rest neither quite one nor the other. But 1,300 civilians are believed dead, 3,700 wounded. Before Tet, the Delta had 14,000 refugees; now there are 170,000, the product of 19,000 houses destroyed and 5,000 heavily damaged. Road traffic is a fifth or less...
...pre-med student, Winfield fenced for the freshman team, but dropped off the varsity midway through last season to do battle with Chem 20. Returning to sabre competition this year, he fashioned an 11-4 Ivy record and earned himself a slot on the all-Ivy team, despite the Crimson's cellar finish...