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...Traps. Today the Communists' six divisions hold two-thirds of I Corps' land but control only about 15,000 of its 3.4 million people. Arrayed against the North Vietnamese are five South Vietnamese divisions. Contacts with the Communists in I Corps' two most battered provinces, Quang Tri and Thua Thien, have dropped sharply in recent months-from 1,200 in February to below...
barracks. By the end of the year the Saigon government hopes to resettle all the refugees. Recently, the first 24,000 moved into new wood-and-tin huts at seven villages near Hai Lang in Quang Tri province. With their teeming marketplaces, the new communities are virtually indistinguishable from villages elsewhere in Viet Nam. Yet U.S. officials wonder how these people will fare on the poor soil after their government supply of rice runs out in six months...
...city that will not be resettled is Quang Tri, which was completely destroyed in the seesaw battles that followed the Easter offensive. It is a modern-day Dresden, with not a single building intact, nor a yelping dog, nor a piece of washing on the line. No one lives there, apart from some members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and a small South Vietnamese army contingent...
Surveying the scene, a South Vietnamese general simply shrugged. "I suppose we ought to turn Quang Tri into a tourist attraction. Maybe we could sell bricks from the citadel at $2 apiece...
...maintain its shot at the NCAAs, Harvard has to win the next two tri-matches. The Crimson meets Trinity and MIT at Concord today and travels to Yale Saturday to take on the Elis and Princeton. "If we can win these," McConnell said, "we'll get the invitation to the tournament." But that's a pretty...