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...Said Specialist Fourth Class Michael Hill, a U.S. adviser with ARVN units in the area: "It was like nothing we ever expected and nothing we ever saw." Then came the ground attack. Some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops, with Russian-built tanks and artillery, swept down through Quang Tri province, sending 50,000 refugees fleeing south and U.S. advisers scurrying to their helicopters. As his stunned military forces struggled to regroup, President Nguyen Van Thieu appeared on TV to deliver a grim ten-minute speech. "This is the final battle to decide the survival of the people," he said...
...from light PT-76s to heavy T-54s of World War II vintage), artillery (up to modern 130-mm. guns with a 19-mile range) and even SA-2 missiles. By week's end, as the northern fighting settled down to a wary probing of defenses around Quang Tri city and Hué, the offensive boiled up in other areas...
...then, some 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars were driving straight through the DMZ into Quang Tri province to join another 20,000 troops already in the area. By Monday, said one awed CINCPAC officer, "it looked like the Rhine River campaign" of World War II. One column drove south along the beaches of the Tonkin Gulf, despite a heavy barrage laid down by U.S. destroyers offshore. Taking advantage of heavy rains and low clouds, which limited air strikes, other units rolled down French-built Highway 1 aboard Soviet-built tanks and trucks towing antiaircraft or artillery pieces...
...plane to make money on some routes. To lure passengers, several lines are removing some of the vacant seats and replacing them with bars, pianos and lounges. TWA, for example, has cut its capacity on a jumbo from 342 to 318 seats. Many lines seem to prefer the new tri-jet Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011. Both have a shorter range than the 747, but they are cheaper to buy and have about 100 fewer seats. Ten of the nation's dozen major scheduled carriers have ordered 169 of the tri-jets; by contrast, they have...
...report that no large-scale removal of civilians from northern to southern South Vietnam has begun, although at the October 28 session of the Paris Talks, the delegate of the Provisional Revolutionary Government did report that forced relocation of residents of Gio Linh and Cam Lo districts of Quang Tri province had taken place; on December 2, the same delegate stated that relocation had been stepped...