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...made, self-propelled 122-mm. rocket, whose seven-mile range has snatched every sanctuary away from the allies. The 122 has hit every major U.S. installation except Cam Ranh Bay at least once; its 42-lb. warhead has destroyed scores of parked U.S. planes, pockmarked runways from Danang to Tan Son Nhut. It has also been used against most cities, striking dread into the South Vietnamese. They denounce it as a terror weapon because, like most rockets, it is not very accurate at long range and sometimes crashes into civilian areas instead of hitting nearby military targets...
...equal time in Saigon - no longer affords a man any rest. Says NBC's New York-based News Operations Head Bill Corrigan: "There's nowhere to hide any more. There are no soft assignments." A newsman is in action from the moment his plane touches down at Tan Son Nhut Airport...
Each week tens of thousands of copies are flown from our Tokyo presses into Tan Son Nhut Airport. The magazines are then dispersed in a constantly changing pattern by military and civilian trucks through minefields and monsoons, by helicopter to isolated outposts, and by airdrops to ships on duty near Yankee and Dixie stations in the South China Sea. About 11,000 are packeted to troops by the Army's Library Field Distributing Center. Half of these copies are donated by TIME; servicemen who can get to a PX snap up their copies at a special 250 rate. Many...
Nguyen Ngoc Huy, an official of the Tan Dai Viet Party: "The Vietnamese people are frightened. Viet Nam needs a real leader, a real patriot. But so far, the Americans have not been able to find such a person. This is because they make a basic mistake-they make contact only with people they feel are leaders, not the people the Vietnamese think are leaders. The trouble with the present government is that its leaders are military men. They lack political ability...
Efforts to hold back the narrowing Communist noose produced some of the fiercest fighting of the week. Seven miles west of the capital, U.S. 25th Infantrymen killed 128 Communists in a firefight, and less than a mile from the Chinese quarter of Cholon, ARVN Rangers killed 48 Viet Cong. Tan Son Nhut airport remained a major target for shelling, and there was fear that General William Westmoreland may not have sufficient troops to defend his own MACV headquarters there against a concerted enemy thrust. Aside from their military aims, the Communists may also be attempting to cut off Saigon...