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...ancient imperial city of Viet Nam, the Communists seized large parts of the city-and only grudgingly yielded them block by block under heavy allied counterattacks at week...
...most daring attack of the week-and certainly one of the most embarrassing-occurred when 19 Viet Cong commandos of the C-10 Sapper Battalion made the U.S. embassy their target. When Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker opened the white reinforced-concrete complex last September, few American missions ever settled into more seemingly impregnable quarters. Looming behind a 10-ft.-high wall, the six-story symbol of U.S. power and prestige is encased in a massive concrete sunscreen that overlaps shatterproof Plexiglas windows. Saigon wags soon dubbed it "Bunker's Bunker...
...Viet" Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings in the compound, but the Americans on the scene threw such heavy fire at them that the guerrillas were kept too busy to set off their explosives...
Rarely in American memory had hope and horror been so poignantly fused within a single week. President Johnson's announcement of a major peace offensive in Asia, coupled with his renunciation of another term, raised anticipation throughout the world that the long agony of Viet Nam might soon be ended. Even as that hope blossomed, an older blight on the American conscience burst through with the capriciousness of a spring freeze. In Memphis, through the budding branches of trees surrounding a tawdry rooming house, a white sniper's bullet cut down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., preeminent voice...
...exterminated much of the middle class and fastened a tight dictatorship on China. The Soviet Union and China, those historic enemies, proclaimed their "fraternal" unity, and though it did not last, the perception of a monolithic Communism had much to do with the later U.S. involvement in Korea and Viet...