Word: vo
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...Target. Enemy troop movements of late have led the command of General William Westmoreland to revise its estimates of the likely next big move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother...
Suddenly, Czechs in Prague and other cities have been snatching up news papers as if they were priceless manu scripts. The normally routine and propagandistic Rudé Právo is usually sold out by midmorning; people regularly besiege kiosks for the livelier afternoon papers. Others have taken to telephoning government agencies, radio and TV stations for information. Cafes are packed as customers argue over their foamy beer. The cause of the excitement is the transformation that is occurring in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček, 46, who only in January ousted Antonín Novotný as boss...
Rise Up & Zoom In. Of the three-man teams, the cameraman is in most constant danger. Says one of the best of them, NBC's Vo Huynh, a refugee from Haiphong who has covered just about every major engagement since 1960, "During a firefight, you can't lie down and shoot. You have to sit up every so often for at least ten seconds." And the cameraman, unlike his colleagues, finds the G.I. helmet too cumbersome when he rises up and zooms...
...allies officially reported 40,000 enemy soldiers killed since the Tet offensive began at the beginning of the lunar New Year, some U.S. officers in Saigon reckoned the losses to be closer to one-third of that figure. That would leave North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap with considerable muscle for a new wave of attacks on the cities. U.S. casualties were a fraction of the Communist losses, but they were the war's heaviest nonetheless, totaling more than 1,350 dead and 6,800 wounded since the beginning of the Tet strikes...
...tries to guess any longer whether or when North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap will attack, either along the DMZ or for a second time against the cities. All that is clear is that whether or not he does, he has already succeeded in putting the allies in a perilous position. He has created a situation in which he could conceivably recapture all that the allies have fought so long and hard to deny him over the past two years: the countryside, where everyone has always agreed the war must ultimately be won or lost. Even in the unlikely event...