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President Nguyen Van Thieu took advantage of the improved military situation to announce that the next three months would be devoted to an all-out counterattack. Obviously worried that Washington might be on the verge of a ceasefire, Thieu evidently judged that if he is to survive politically, he must spur the military into making a genuine counteroffensive...
South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu now regards the Mekong Delta as the "main front" of the current war-even though the Delta does not have, in the strictest sense, a battle front. Long considered the country's most secure region, the Delta is crucial to both sides; more than a third of South Viet Nam's population lives there, and it grows 80% of the country's rice. As the conventional war to the north remained stalemated last week, attention shifted to the south, where Communist guerrillas are still waging what TIME Correspondent...
...Congress continues to shirk its responsibility, and the vocal majority must continue its outraged condemnations of our barbaric government policy at every possible opportunity. It is not enough to wait until next January in hopes that a new President will take office with the declaration that all aid to Thieu is being cut off. Even if such a President were elected, the calm interim in America would be bought with the limbs and lives of brave Indochinese who refuse to give in to the dictates of an arrogant regime and an intransigent foreign power...
Even if Steiner had put all his power to the test, his backing of HSA would have been like the Marines backing a regular regiment of Thieu's Army. On May 5, 1972, HSA was forced to mail out cancellation notices to those who had subscribed to five of its seven charter flights to Europe. HSA, due to competition from lower-than-ever youth fare rates, could simply not corner the Harvard market as it had done in the past...
...protest had escalated quickly. As students returned from Spring vacations, many applauded the North Vietnamese advances, hopeful that the Thieu regime in the South would be quickly deposed. But after the Nixon Administration escalated the air war over the North, hitting Hanoi and Haiphong with giant B-52s for the first time in the war, domestic resistance rapidly stiffened. A coalition of liberal and radical students embracing a variety of campus political organizations met and called a mass meeting for April 20. The Crimson joined 15 other college newspapers across the country in running concurrently an editorial calling...