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...ground, on 7th Street and on 14th Street, what looked like cool smoke to the office-workers was hot fire to the blacks, the cops, and the firemen. Before the weekend was out, there would be 851 fires in Washington. Damage would be estimated at 13.3 million dollars. 645 buildings would be destroved, including 212 residential units. Ten persons would be killed, more than 1000 arrested. But on Friday afternoon, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, things were just beginning...
...most spectacular days, Keefe birdied eight of the 15 holes he played, sinking 30-foot putts on the 2nd, 7th, and 10th holes, and chipping in another birdie on the 5th hole. By the end of his first nine holes, he was seven up on one opponent...
...vital Binh Loi bridge outside Saigon as the V.C. tried to cut the capital's link with the major U.S. bases of Long Binh and Bien Hoa to the northeast. U.S. intelligence placed three enemy divisions no more than two nights' march from the capital: the 7th NVA and the 5th V.C. divisions to the north and west, and the 9th V.C. Division to the northeast...
...enemy force of at least 700 men tackled the city's most vital military target: Tan Son Nhut airstrip and its adjoining MACV compound housing Westmoreland's headquarters and the 7th Air Force Command Center, the nerve centers of U.S. command in the war. The Communists breached the immediate base perimeter, slipping past some 150 outposts without a shot being fired, and got within 1,000 feet of the runways before they were halted in eight hours of bloody hand-to-hand combat. All told, the Communists attacked from 18 different points around Tan Son Nhut, getting close enough...
...volatility and hornet sting. North of the 38th parallel it has an army of 367,000, an air force of 35,000 equipped with 650 planes, and a navy of 10,500. Arrayed against this force is a South Korean army of 600,000 men, plus the 2nd and 7th U.S. Infantry Divisions, totaling another 50,000 men. The South cannot match the North's airpower, though the U.S. is moving in 200 to 300 late-model planes to end the imbalance...