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...speech in which he declared that the U.S. is determined to resist when ever the Communists wage such "wars of liberation," in which "the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action" and the tactics are those of "the sniper, the ambush and the raid, terror, extortion and assassination." These tactics will be countered, he said, not with massive forces and nuclear weapons, but "with companies and squads and individual soldiers...
There is nothing small time about Butler basketball. More than 7,300 fanatic Hoosiers fight their way into the Butler gym for each home game, anxious to see the local heroes ambush visitors from the Big Ten and Missouri Valley Conference. They are rarely disappointed. In Tony Hinkle's 33 years as head coach. Butler has won one national college championship, gone to the National Invitation Tournament twice, won 447 games against 286 losses. "There is nothing I fear more than going to Indianapolis to play Hinkle." says Notre Dame Coach John Jordan, whose tough Irish squad took...
After this brainwashing in reverse, the regiment is sent into a remote village to track down an elusive F.L.N. band, and promptly loses two men in an ambush. In reprisal, the paras cut the throats of 27 Moslem villagers who had nothing to do with the affair. It is brutal, but in "Communist" terms it works, since the natives are now too frightened to help the guerrillas. The band is soon cornered and wiped...
Truth v. Charity. The ambush was done skillfully: one anonymous paragrapher wrote slyly that a reader "has been for several days afflicted with a lethargy, owing to the perusal of three chapters" of Hawkins' book. The implication is unjust; Hawkins is long-winded but not dangerously sedative, and even the digressions cut out by Editor Davis (an essay on taverns, a list of 14 ways a criminal may avoid justice) sound rather lively. Boswell sums up the remaining objections in the fourth paragraph of his own Life. He charges Hawkins with solemnity and digressiveness (true), inaccuracy (partly true...
...Nidever and his men stumbled toward the scene of the ambush, tracers from automatic rifles laced the darkness, and the finger snap of small-arms fire was punctuated by the sledging blow of mortar explosions. Even under the wavering light of flare shells it was impossible to tell friend from foe. There was a movement, a silhouette running along the road. Was it a Viet Cong guerrilla or a Vietnamese Ranger? Even as the man passed it was impossible to tell...