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Fifty-nine Americans were reported killed in action and 42 more died of non-hostile causes, the highest U.S. casualty report since. September 5th. The reports attributed most of the casualties to the heavy support the United States is giving to the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos...
Later, North Vietnamese and NLF spokesmen said the 7th Battalion of the 17th Calvary Regiment and "several battalions" from the 5th Mechanized Division and the 101st Airborne Division are operating in Laos. The United States called the accusations "all nonsense...
Whether such artifices will work is questionable. As one G.I. from the 5th Mechanized Division put it, "We are the unwilling doing the unwanted for the ungrateful." The Army may not be able to turn such attitudes around very much or very soon. The simple fact is that it is hard to exhort soldiers to fight a war that even the Pentagon wants to write off as fast as possible...
...channeled to reach the needs of man, as a great river may be diverted into a system of ducts to irrigate fields." But how to embody this concept? The first angels in Christian art look like ordinary men, whether painted on catacomb walls or preserved in mosaic on the 5th century walls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. What the artist stresses is the power of assuming human shape and walking among men, who "entertain them unawares...
Used because of their low melting point, lead compounds give pottery the smooth glaze favored by professionals and amateurs alike. They also produce disastrous side effects. Lead glazes probably caused the chronic poisoning and sterility that contributed to the decline of 5th century Rome. More recently, a physician's own case of lead poisoning was traced to cola drunk nightly from a cup his son had made in a university ceramics class...