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...Year's Day skirmish less than a mile from the Cambodian border. "They hit us with about 5,000 troops that night. They laid bombs right on top of us; we dropped bombs right on them. It's possible that our high command was using us as bait to draw the ! Viet Cong out so we could inflict heavy casualties. We lost about 25 dead and 175 wounded; we killed about 500 of them. Their bodies were scraped up by bulldozers, just like in the movie. For that battle our platoon was on the inner perimeter, but two weeks later...
...verray parfit gentil" hero could be a killer in a metal dinner jacket, slaying unbelievers when it pleased him. Even so, as Mark Twain speculated about the old warriors, "there was something very engaging about these great simplehearted creatures, (although) there did not seem to be brains enough . . . to bait a fishhook with." The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage, may carry...
...package of offensive-arms reductions that Reagan would be tempted to pursue the dream of a grand compromise that included some resolution on the Strategic Defense Initiative, rather than stick to the original U.S. goal of a medium-range-missile deal not linked to SDI. If Reagan accepted the bait, as he initially did, the Soviets would be in the catbird seat. Either Reagan would end up curtailing Star Wars, or he would emerge as the Grinch who stole Christmas, the man who dashed hopes for a radical breakthrough in arms control...
...media can belly-ache all it wants about deception by the White House. But, as the fisherman said, "It don't matter what bait you use if the fish ain't biting," and the fact remains that the press must be held responsible for the stories it chooses to print. Admittedly, the Administration acted wrongly and foolishly, but the press must share complicity in this public and foreign relations debacle...
...service. In fact, they had not done any such thing. Two months ago, the Miami- based retailer known as Teltec Savings Communications filed suit against AT&T for allegedly misappropriating customers and trying to "undermine" Teltec's business. Sprint and Western Union have also been charged with using bait-and- switch tactics, quoting one long-distance subscription rate to consumers, then charging another. Yet despite all those occurrences, FCC overseers claim the election process has been fair. Says Albert Halprin, chief of the FCC's common-carrier division: "The process was not perfect. But considering its size and scope...