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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...
...foreign press is against us. The press is the agent of the Viet Cong, so don't be surprised at what happens to you newsmen here." A few days later, South Vietnamese troops fired over the head of a correspondent who sought to cover them in action at Quang Tri, driving him back...
...Correspondent Bob Jones does not necessarily subscribe to Browne's theory, but he has little faith in directions offered by the South Vietnamese. Camped with a camera crew outside Quang Tri city in an effort to get film of soldiers raising the South Vietnamese flag over the city's citadel, Jones asked how to get to the citadel. "Just walk across that field," said the officer, "and someone will show you the way." Jones noted that not only was the field under intense enemy fire but also that his crew would have to swim a moat and scale...
...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...
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...