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Dishing It Out. The Americans had barely savored one of their biggest victories of the year, however, when a North Vietnamese battalion pinned down a U.S. airborne company in the Central Highlands and gave them a bad mauling. After three banzai charges that brought the North Vietnamese within grenade range, the fighting became so close and intense that air strikes and artillery could not be called in. The Americans lost 76 men, including four of the company's five officers. But they dished it out in spite of their losses. Enemy dead were estimated...
...neighbor," Sato cried in village after village last week. "Over there, there's no freedom, and without freedom, how could one find life worth living?" Sato's suggestion: "You must never, never vote for such parties as Socialists or Communists." Almost invariably, the crowds cried: "Sato banzai!" All this should have unnerved Socialist Leader Kozon Sasaki, whose 141 lower-house members represent Japan's second largest party. But he merely countered with his standard attacks on the U.S. and routine demands for Japanese neutrality, with plenty of references to corruption thrown in. More exciting to outsiders...
...Best Days." Sure enough, the seven pilots flocked to Ozuki. They had no trouble recognizing the girls from Tabe High. Spotting Mrs. Hori, ex-Kamikaze Hideo Kawai cried: "Why, you look exactly the same!" "And you look as handsome as ever," said she. "Banzai!" cheered Kawai, a portly, balding Kyoto milk dealer who obviously could not swing into a fighter cockpit as easily as he once did. Over a lunch of rice, shredded cuttlefish and beer-a traditional Kamikaze last meal -the men and women swapped toasts "to the best days of our lives," promised to meet again next year...
Euphoric, Miss Haruno promptly set off on a victory tour of shops using automatic dry-cleaning equipment. "Listen to those machines," she crowed. "They sound like the three cheers of banzai...
...marchers were protesting the Japan-South Korea Normalization Treaty, ratified by banzai vote in the Diet a week earlier when Premier Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic floor managers bulldozed the opposition Socialists with a post-midnight roll call. Japan's leftists claim that the treaty will somehow lead to Japanese involvement in the Viet...