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...North Vietnamese; the losses included a string of seven artillery positions on aptly named Rocket Ridge, which looks down on Kontum 25 miles away. None of the terror-stricken ARVN units put up much of a struggle, but few faded as ignobly as the 1,200-man garrison at Tan Canh, the forward headquarters of the troubled 22nd. As one of the U.S. advisers who survived the debacle told TIME'S David DeVoss: "The only Vietnamization that was successful at Tan Canh was North Vietnamization...
...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, did not fit my image of the Federal bureaucrat. He was neither paunchy nor pallid from sitting too long under fluorescent light, in fact when a trio of Crimson women interviewed him April 6 he sported a snappy pinstripe suit and a fresh tan from an Asp ex ski weekend...
Cowboy Redux. Winchesters are shaped, packaged and sold 20 to a pack exactly like cigarettes. They contain shredded tobacco and have tan paper-like wrappers made from tobacco. Tipped with cellulose-acetate filters like cigarettes, their light smoke can be comfortably inhaled, and they are sold in some cigarette-vending machines and displayed among the cigarettes at some retail stores. The Internal Revenue Service, which classifies all tobacco products for tax purposes, initially declared that Winchesters were not little cigars. The IRS reversed itself later when Reynolds made some changes in the product's tobacco...
...rice is grown, seven out of ten families were tenants, paying 30% or more of their income to the landlords for their land, seed and the use of a buffalo. Typical of the tenants was Tran Van Cau, 42, a farmer in the Delta village of Tan Loc. For ten years, Cau had tilled a small 4½-acre tract; he paid rent first to a local landlord, then for six years to the Viet Cong, then to the original landlord, who moved back after government troops "pacified" the village in 1968. Today, Cau serves only his own family...
...ground-floor conference room of the hospital, workmen were setting up tan folding chairs from which Dita Beard would be quizzed by seven members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She would be wheel-chaired to the room and face them from a bed. A nurse with emergency equipment would be stationed outside the door...