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Ready Baclc-Up. The troops now being sent are from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and the Marine Corps' 5th Division-the most mobile and professional outfits remaining in the U.S.-based strategic Reserve. This leaves intact just three regular Army divisions-committed to NATO and not organized for fast deployment to underdeveloped countries-plus most of a Marine division and six Army brigades dispersed from Alaska to the Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between...
Recently, officials caught a South Vietnamese army unit that was actually running hot goods to Saigon's black market in an ambulance, complete with blaring siren. Even the chief of staff of South Viet Nam's 5th Division was caught using government trucks to transport U.S. rice to areas where it could be sold to the Viet Cong...
...women's division of the Corcoran Cup, comprised of only two races, Cliffie skier Robin Barnes placed 5th and 11th for a combined standing...
...Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, the two-month-long election lull ended last week in a hail of mortar shells that thudded down just after the company had dug in for the night near the town of Que Son, 30 miles south of Danang. The company commander radioed battalion headquarters that he had been jumped by a company of North Vietnamese regulars. It was nothing that he could not handle, he said. But he was dangerously mistaken. Facing his 100 leathernecks were some 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and they were primed for a fight. "Those people...
...pier, inner walls, a sewer network and a central flagstone street. Buried within the fortifications, which are at least 460 ft. by 130 ft., were catapult balls of apparently Roman origin, along with building blocks bearing Greek monograms and pottery fragments, including one that dates from the 5th century B.C. Said Euzennat, who believes the find as important as the ruins of Carthage: "You have to go to Syracuse to find something comparable...