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...eight northern provinces, including the Central Highlands and several districts in the once secure Mekong Delta (see map). Nearly all of that control is a direct result of the Easter offensive. So far, they have no significant hold on population centers, which may explain their recent thrusts into Quang Ngai province south of Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city...
...Vonnegut novel, directed by George Roy Hill and written by Stephen Geller (who wrote the original novel on which Pretty Poison was based). The structure is cleaned up, the characters sharpened, and the Dresden holocaust sequences are horrifying--if not as devastating as, say, the recent films of the Quang Tri citadel...
...battle for Quang Tri turned into one of the longest and bloodiest of the war. Last week, after two battalions of South Vietnamese marines scrambled over the nearly demolished battlements of the citadel, the Saigon government announced that Quang Tri had at last been retaken...
...costly victory. The number of Communist losses is not known, but it is high. By conservative estimates, the South Vietnamese suffered 1,000 casualties a week in the Quang Tri fighting alone. The city, moreover, is still an easy target for NVA guns hidden in the nearby mountains, and it was not certain whether Saigon's forces could hold the citadel-or will even...
...capture of Quang Tri will give Saigon a much-needed psychological boost. But it by no means accomplishes Thieu's announced aim. U.S. General Frederick Weyand was reported to have estimated last week that the Communists hold roughly half of South Viet Nam. Beyond that, the battle for Quang Tri raises grave questions once again about the basic strategy of Thieu's counteroffensive, which has committed South Vietnamese troops to costly set-piece battles for cities of marginal military importance. As for Quang Tri, it is now nothing but rubble...