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...surrendered, one of the biggest such catches of the war. A body count turned up another 135 dead, bringing the total to 352 in the 76-hour battle. Allied losses were eight killed and 37 wounded. Among the Communist dead were the commander of the North Vietnamese unit-the 8th Battalion-his executive officer and three company commanders. All told for the week in eastern I Corps, the allies killed 1,370 Communist troops while suffering 110 dead of their...
...Chief William Barrett said, was the result of "a set of circumstances that could never be duplicated in a million years." One factor was the weather: the dry season had started two months early last fall, and dried U Minh's peat turf to tinder. Then, on March 8th, a group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started a forest fire. At almost the same time fires accidentally started in other parts of the forest. Whipped by changing winds, the fires met, melded...
Digging Out. No one knows for sure who ordered Borobudur to be built. Inscriptions on stones point to the Shailendra dynasty, which ruled Java in the 8th and 9th centuries. But there is little doubt that it required armies of laborers to lug its huge volcanic stones into place from nearby mountain slopes, and another army of artisans to carve out some three miles of bas-reliefs. What caused the massive temple to be abandoned is equally obscure, although evidence suggests it was caused by the volcanoes that form the spine of Java. For centuries, it lay buried under jungle...
Like most of the moderates, Spong is a middleaged, socially prominent lawyer. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, where his friends included the sons of three past Virginia governors, and then went to Europe with the 8th Army Corps during the Second World War. After the war, he studied law at the University of Virginia and at the University of Edinburgh. In 1954 he won election to the state's House of Delegates and two years later entered the State Senate. While he was in the Senate, he earned acclaim even from the Byrd people for a four-year study...
Church History 125. Origins of the New Parochialism. M., W., F., Sun. at 8. Assistant Professor P. Jungle Corkery. An attempt to use sociological "method" to trace the growth and progress of anti-rebelliousness in selected Anglo-Saxon communities of the 8th century A.D., and to relate the growth of this phenomenon to the current resurgence of New Parochialism as a way of life...