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MAJOR LANE ROGERS, 36, a lean, dry-humored U.S. Marine Corps regular, has been in Viet Nam for 10½ months as adviser to a Vietnamese marine batallion. He has no command capacity whatever. All he can do os offer suggestions when and if they are solicited by his Vietnamese "counterpart." To perform effectively, the adviser must earn the trust and friendship of his Vietnamese opposite number- a process that often takes weeks, and sometimes is never achieved. Whenever an American adviser tries to force his views on a Vietnamese commander, he is in for trouble. Thus one overzealous adviser...
Milton E. Cohen, the Square's latest entrepreneur, is a short-order cook and also what J. B. Priestly would call an Antiant. Antiants, you know, are men dedicated to the fight against the man-produced society, and Milty is a batallion in himself. For he believes that cheap sandwiches can be good and can command the interest of both counter-man and consumer. Milty's own phrase is "I don't make sandwiches, I build 'em"--and that's a pretty stirring battle cry to my ears...
...past year the Communist-led Viet Cong has amassed enough support for occasional attacks of batallion strength. Of the estimated 20,000 guerillas at least one third are South Vietnamese. The other are either northern "volunteers" or Southern refugees now living in the North. A steady pipeline of military equipment and ammunition comes from the North, smuggled through Laos and Cambodia along the "Ho Chi Minh" trail. Much of this equipment comes to North Vietnam as military aid from Russia and East Europe...
...raiding a village. Recently, in an abrupt change of pace and tactics, the guerrillas began striking in larger numbers and concentrating their attack in the country's heavily populated southern part. The Viet Cong poured more than 200 men into a single battle, launched five other forays in batallion strength that seemed to signal the start of a spring offensive. Said one U.S. colonel: "The Viet Cong is entering a new phase...
Major Robert J. Kaufmann, commander of the batallion, said that the unit had no intention of disobeying University regulations. Members will now seek the permission of each House Master to hold informal meetings in which they which explain the advantages of the unit...