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After the meeting everyone adjourned to march around Massachusetts Hall. It was exciting. A group of people were playing bongo drums and chanting slogans--"Quang Tri! An Loc! Do the same to Derek Bok!" was the most memorable slogan to come out on the strike--and the occupiers were shouting speeches from the windows. "This is really very exciting," I said to one of the people marching in front of me. "Yes," he agreed, "but I'd still rather be making it with someone." I didn't fully appreciate that exchange 'til I had more of a standard of comparison...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: What Did the Cat Do to the Bathtub Down the Hall? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

Booby Traps. Today the Communists' six divisions hold two-thirds of I Corps' land but control only about 15,000 of its 3.4 million people. Arrayed against the North Vietnamese are five South Vietnamese divisions. Contacts with the Communists in I Corps' two most battered provinces, Quang Tri and Thua Thien, have dropped sharply in recent months-from 1,200 in February to below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: Butterflies and Spiders in I Corps | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

barracks. By the end of the year the Saigon government hopes to resettle all the refugees. Recently, the first 24,000 moved into new wood-and-tin huts at seven villages near Hai Lang in Quang Tri province. With their teeming marketplaces, the new communities are virtually indistinguishable from villages elsewhere in Viet Nam. Yet U.S. officials wonder how these people will fare on the poor soil after their government supply of rice runs out in six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: Butterflies and Spiders in I Corps | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...city that will not be resettled is Quang Tri, which was completely destroyed in the seesaw battles that followed the Easter offensive. It is a modern-day Dresden, with not a single building intact, nor a yelping dog, nor a piece of washing on the line. No one lives there, apart from some members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and a small South Vietnamese army contingent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: Butterflies and Spiders in I Corps | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

Surveying the scene, a South Vietnamese general simply shrugged. "I suppose we ought to turn Quang Tri into a tourist attraction. Maybe we could sell bricks from the citadel at $2 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: Butterflies and Spiders in I Corps | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

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