Word: tri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take an aerial photograph of a place like Quang Tri, and then you take a photograph after B-52s have been over it. You can't believe what happened. What bothers me is that when you're there, you accept it. You rationalize it. You condone it. You say it's right because they are the enemy, and then when you come home, you can't believe that you didn't have the courage to open your mouth against that kind of murder, that kind of devastation over people, over animals...
...South: "During my stay I met a North Vietnamese journalist just returned from Quang Tri. 'We lost fewer soldiers than you think,' he said. 'In North Korea, the Chinese could send wave upon wave of soldiers into a battle, but we must be economical. We dig deep. The bombs don't hurt us as much as you think...
...novel, directed by George Roy Hill and written by Stephen Geller (who wrote the original novel on which Pretty Poison was based). The structure is cleaned up, the characters sharpened, and the Dresden holocaust sequences are horrifying--if not as devastating as, say, the recent films of the Quang Tri citadel...
...costly victory. The number of Communist losses is not known, but it is high. By conservative estimates, the South Vietnamese suffered 1,000 casualties a week in the Quang Tri fighting alone. The city, moreover, is still an easy target for NVA guns hidden in the nearby mountains, and it was not certain whether Saigon's forces could hold the citadel-or will even try...
...capture of Quang Tri will give Saigon a much-needed psychological boost. But it by no means accomplishes Thieu's announced aim. U.S. General Frederick Weyand was reported to have estimated last week that the Communists hold roughly half of South Viet Nam. Beyond that, the battle for Quang Tri raises grave questions once again about the basic strategy of Thieu's counteroffensive, which has committed South Vietnamese troops to costly set-piece battles for cities of marginal military importance. As for Quang Tri, it is now nothing but rubble...