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...Quang Tri city, the only provincial capital in South Viet Nam to fall to the North Vietnamese, has stood as a humiliating symbol of defeat to Saigon since it was captured last May. On June 19, President Nguyen Van Thieu promised that Saigon's troops would devote the next three months to "kicking the Communists out of South Viet Nam forever." Ten days later, Saigon launched a 20,000-man counteroffensive. Its main object: Quang Tri city...
...battle for Quang Tri turned into one of the longest and bloodiest of the war. Last week, after two battalions of South Vietnamese marines scrambled over the nearly demolished battlements of the citadel, the Saigon government announced that Quang Tri had at last been retaken...
...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...
...North Vietnamese have not captured Hue or any other major city except Quang Tri, which they have successfully defended for two months with a constant artillery barrage against some of Saigon's best troops. Instead, they have been fanning out over the countryside and expanding their area of operation. The North Vietnamese have been relying primarily on the use of small units, though their soldiers are frequently supported by tanks and long-range 130-mm. guns. In many sections of the Mekong Delta, as a result of steadily mounting pressure from the small units of Communist troops, security...
Five months after they managed-with U.S. airpower-to stall the Communists' Easter offensive, they have not yet mounted a successful counteroffensive or recaptured Quang Tri city or any other significant part of the northern province that fell in April and May. They have not reopened Highway 13 between Saigon and An Loc, and the task was finally abandoned altogether last week as the two divisions assigned to it were regrouped in an effort to head off Communist units that are believed to be moving toward Saigon. The North Vietnamese are still staging ambushes on the road between Kontum...