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...resumed in Paris last week (see TIME ESSAY), Saigon's forces were pursuing not one but two counteroffensives. In the northern part of the country, 20,000 South Vietnamese marines and airborne troops were continuing their cautious advance on North Vietnamese troops in Quang Tri province and its capital, the most important city to fall to the Communists since their offensive began last March. Meanwhile another 10,000 ARVN troops and rangers opened up a second drive along the central coast, where the North Vietnamese at one point had threatened to cut the country...
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...
...Saigon command reported light fighting on the edges of Quang Tri, the provincial capital which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. It said South Vietnamese paratroopers driving from the east had inched their way to within 200 to 300 yards of the Citadel, the 19th century fortress in the heart of the city...
...week's end, the South Vietnamese task force at Quang Tri was inching its way forward, with the help of U.S. air strikes, toward the center of Quang Tri city. One such strike, Hillenbrand reported, transformed a thickly wooded enemy bunker position into a cluster of burnt-out tree stumps, "as if some triple-strength forest fire had passed that way." If past performance is any guide, the North Vietnamese will probably put up a mettlesome resistance before withdrawing-and the NVA still has plenty of long-range artillery in the hills to the west of the city. Nonetheless...