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...force remained stalled under enemy fire on Highway 13. An Loc has little strategic value, but it has become a symbol of victory or defeat to both the North and South. "As it slowly disappears under the combined weight of allied bombing and Communist bombardment," reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, who visited the area last week, "its symbolic importance grows ever greater. Like Dien Bien Phu, which also had no particular importance until stubborn men made it a symbol, An Loc cannot be allowed to fall by either side. One U.S. adviser describes the effort to capture the town this...
...North Vietnamese invasion. For our cover story on Hanoi's General Giap, Neff concentrated on reporting an overview of the fighting and its ramifications as seen from Saigon. David DeVoss, meanwhile, journeyed north to Hué to provide an account of that city's mass evacuation. Rudolph Rauch traveled to the threatened Central Highlands town of Kontum, then spent a night on ambush patrol outside Phu Bai with a group of G.I.s...
SAIGON Correspondent Rudolph Rauch had finished a letter home complaining about the lack of news. Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud, on vacation, had just arrived in Singapore en route to Bali. That was three weeks ago. Suddenly North Vietnamese troops poured south, U.S. bombers began flying north, and there was an indefinite moratorium on letter writing and vacations. Cloud, Rauch and Correspondent David DeVoss were spending long, hazardous days filing for two cover stories within three weeks. The report in this issue's Nation section includes articles on the Nixon Administration's policy making and the domestic and diplomatic...
While Cloud in Saigon followed the military situation throughout Viet Nam, Rauch headed upcountry to I Corps, where the fighting had begun. "It has been a jumble of airfields and highways," Rauch reports, "on which you wait while a gentle rain of JP4 or diesel fuel sifts endlessly down, and you are told there are no flights anywhere or the road is closed." Once he had to hitch a ride on a Vietnamese air force plane evacuating wounded marines from Phu Bai. Despite these difficulties,Rauch managed three trips into Hue and a visit to Danang to interview U.S. pilots...
...Clues. "They came by bus, by put-putting Rototillers, aboard army trucks borrowed for an afternoon from ARVN," wrote TIME's Rauch. "Those who had time to pack chose peculiar things to salvage: one family had a refrigerator in a wheelbarrow, nothing else. A lieutenant carried an enormous Sanyo sound system, still in its carton and minus the speakers, strapped to the back of his motorbike. Nearly everyone seems to have a pig. Pigs are strapped onto Honda seats, pigs are tied onto front bumpers, pigs hang in wire cages from tail gates and are slung from poles that...