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...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 will be able to make good on another promise: to reoccupy by mid-September all of the South Vietnamese terrain now held by the Communists...
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...
...might be returning to Paris with "a new approach." Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the N.L.F. chief delegate, stood fast on the Viet Cong's seven-point plan, which insists upon a total U.S. withdrawal by a set date, the resignation of South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu and the establishment of a coalition government in Saigon that would include the Communists and supervise new elections...
...place ceasefire, a release of all American prisoners in return for a U.S. withdrawal within four months, and an end of acts of war by the U.S. in Indochina. One glimmer of movement was a remark by Xuan Thuy. He suggested that while the Communists still wanted to oust Thieu, the shape of Saigon's political future might be left-as the U.S. has proposed-to later negotiations between the two Viet Nams. Then, at week's end, Le Due Tho, a North Vietnamese Politburo member who has had secret talks with Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, returned...
Avoiding military service in South Viet Nam has long been something of a national pastime. On a visit to Saigon back in 1967 (when the country harbored an estimated 40,000 draft dodgers), Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, flatly told the Thieu government that, if it wanted more U.S. troops, it had better get all those long-haired kids roaring around Saigon on motorbikes into khakis. Because of the invasion by the North, avoiding military service has once more become a life-or-death matter for several thousand Vietnamese. The draft has been temporarily expanded to make all males...