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Struggling to set up a perimeter near the base of a hill, the 2nd Platoon of B Company found itself under such severe shelling from mortars that it was soon forced up a fingerlike slope-apart from the rest of the battalion and in the very midst of the enemy. Finally taking refuge on a narrow ledge, the isolated platoon fired at the khaki-clad North Vietnamese attackers from as close as five to ten feet. Sergeant Clyde Savage stood up to blast down three of them, found to his horror that his automatic rifle was empty. "I didn...
...oldest part is the Mish nah, or Teaching, a selection of the Oral Law as taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century. The rabbi divided this oral teaching into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud...
Senator Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) will seek an investigation of the May 2nd movement, one of Dodd's administrative aides told the CRIMSON yesterday...
...173rd Airborne Brigade, and the 101st Airborne's Danang 1st Brigade that soon followed, the marines' first assignment was defensive: creating a protective enclosure around bustling Danang airbase and harbor. The 173rd was thrown around Bien Hoa airbase, together with the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division-the Big Red One-which arrived in July. The Screaming Eagles of the 101st helped reopen Route 19 from the coast to An Khe, stood watch while the 1st Air Cavalry's advance party hacked out their "golf course...
...once housed the French high command. Chief of State Thieu heads it. Downtown, in his offices on Pasteur Street, the American commander in Viet Nam, General William C. West moreland (TIME cover, Feb. 19), presides over the complex of U.S. commands ranging from Lieut. General Joseph Moore's 2nd Air Division to Major General Lewis Walt's Third Marine Amphibious Force. The Army's biggest clout is contained in the recently created Field Force Viet Nam under Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen. Headquartered in Nha Trang in the largest and hardest-pressed of Viet...