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Communist forces yesterday captured Quang Tri, the first provincial capital to fall during their 33-day-old offensive. It was the northernmost town still held by South Vietnamese troops...
...Communist victory opened the way for possible attacks on Hue, the former imperial capital, 32 miles south of Quang Tri. The Communists now control a 27 mile strip south of the demilitarized zone...
Several thousand South Vietnamese troops--and at least 20 Americans--attempted to battle their way south from Quang Tri last night, as efforts to defend the city were formally abandoned...
...airpower save Saigon's army from disaster on the ground? U.S. military advisers in Saigon insist that it has already done so. Without lavish air support, they say, the embattled cities of An Loc and Quang Tri might have fallen to the Communists long ago. In fact, the Americans believe that the North Vietnamese blundered by underestimating the amount of airpower that the U.S. could and would bring to bear on the offensive...
...Military Region I (the north), NVA troops and artillery were once more moving toward Quang Tri city, raising fears of an attack on that vulnerable provincial capital. Several villages in the Southern provinces of the region were reported burned. South Vietnamese troops opened a road from Hue to besieged fire base Bastogne, which last week withstood a North Vietnamese tear-gas attack...