Word: quang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese started their counteroffensive north of Hué last month, four cameramen have been killed and Newsweek Reporter Alexander Shimkin is missing in an ambush and presumed dead. Freelance Photographer Gerard Hebert was cut down by artillery while talking with a U.S. adviser on the outskirts of Quang Tri city. British Freelancer James Gill was killed while covering the South Vietnamese marines attacking the city...
...deliberately bombing the dikes of North Viet Nam? That was clearly the most perplexing question of the week about the war in Viet Nam, where the rival armies remained locked in a bitter, seesaw battle for Quang Tri city. The accusation was serious, since nearly 15 million peasants live in the Red River Delta, whose floodwaters are controlled by a centuries-old, 2,500-mile labyrinth of earthen dikes (TIME, July 31). In the virtual absence of uncontestable firsthand information, however, the shouting of partisans all but drowned out the testimony of witnesses...
Despite heavy air support, after three weeks the South Vietnamese troops had still not dislodged some 500 or 600 Communists inside the thick-walled 19th century citadel in the center of Quang Tri city. On the coast, ARVN troops were equally cautious -with reason. Their first objective was Bong Son, capital of one of three districts in Binh Dinh province to fall to the Communists. ARVN'S slow pace has been frustrating to President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had wanted Quang Tri city retaken before the Paris talks resumed on July 13. It is no more certain that Thieu...
Whether or not Thieu is successful, it is already plain that South Viet Nam's civilians have been the real losers since the Communist offensive began. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, who accompanied airborne troops as they advanced into Quang Tri city last week, sent this report...
Much of the battle for Quang Tri city is the boredom of fearful waiting: waiting for a 130-mm. shell to come crashing in, waiting for an airstrike to soften up a bunker position, waiting for new troops to arrive with more ammunition and supplies, waiting for headquarters to decide whether to attack or, well, to wait...