SAIGON, Jan. 31, 1968 (UPI)-Allied aircraft dive-bombed and strafed Viet Cong positions on the edge of Saigon today as the guerrillas continued to fight after raids on the U.S. Embassy, the Tan Son Nhut airbase and five hotels housing American officials aThe Viet Cong also struck from one end of South Vietnam to the other in a bloody offensive.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1968 (UPI) - President Johnson Friday termed the Viet Cong attacks on major South Vietnamese cities "a complete failure" militarily and said they would force no change in American troop levels or basic war strategy."No great new overall moves are going to be made," he said, but cautioned: "Anything can happen on a moment's notice."

The Allies said the six-day-old Viet Cong drive was broken at least. But a high American official warned that another guerilla invasion of the cities may be coming.

SAIGON, Feb. 6, 1968 (UPI) - Guerrillas leapfrogged from the flaming streets of Chinatown back into the center of Saigon today. To the north, U.S. marines ripped down a Red North Vietnamese flag that had enraged them and hoisted the Stars and Stripes overU.S. spokesmen said about 900 Viet Cong battled on in Saigon, possibly moving in reinforcements in the ninth day of the guerrilla invasion of South Vietnam's cities.

CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 1968 (UPI) --In his strongest attack yet on President Johnson's Vietnam policies, Kennedy said "it is time for the truth - time to drop the mask of official illusion" which he said had been shattered by Communist attacks in Saigon and cities and towns all across South Vietnam.

SAIGON, Feb. 12, 1968 (UPI) - U.S. military headquarters announced today it would no longer issue casualty tolls on the invasion of the cities because the figures are "no longer meaningful," since urban warfare has died down.The last total, reported yesterday, said 30,795 Communists had been killed compared to 3,149 Allied soldiers, including 973 Americans.

SAIGON, Feb. 15, 1968 (UPI) - A North Vietnamese regiment was headed for Hue tonight in an attempt to reinforce Communist troops surrounded by Allied forces in the embattled Citadel, intelligence reports said.U.S. radar picked up a convoy heading toward the ancient imperial city from mountain sanctuaries to the southwest and artillery was called in to knock it out. A North Vietnamese regiment numbers up to 1,200 men.

HUE, South Vietnam, Feb. 15, 1968 (UPI) - When the attacks started, North Vietnamese troops, perhaps 2,400 of them, seized this ancient city in a blitzkrieg invasion that did the job in about two hours.

SAIGON, Feb. 24, 1968 (UPI) - South Vietnamese troops blasted through a gate of the imperial palace today and won the 25-day battle for Hue.Grimy U.S. marines held back and watched as the government troops stormed the palace against light resistance. But the leathernecks and other allied troops sweeping through the two-mile-square Forbidden City surrounding the palace fought a series of fierce battles with pockets of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops.