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...Scene of the biggest battle was a slender salient of India that points sharply into East Pakistan some 20 miles west of the Pakistani city of Jessore, an important railhead that leads to key ports on the Bay of Bengal. Early last week, according to a Pakistani general, one battalion of Indian regulars operating alongside a battalion of Mukti Bahini crossed the Indian border point of Boyra. From there, camouflaged with netting and supported by tanks and heavy artillery, they thrust northeastward along a U-shaped front into East Pakistan...
...just experienced a losing season, his fourth 23-2 loss in as many years to the "Breakfast Table Daily" gang from Cambridge, and the sinking realization that the Colonel's potato salad had come complete with a marching battalion of tiny black ants...
Herbert was assigned to Viet Nam in September 1968, first in a staff position, then as a battalion commander in the field. The following July he was back in the U.S., relieved of his combat command after just 58 days, his exemplary 19-year service record marred by an efficiency report so adverse that his career was ruined. He immediately began appealing the Army's action against him, and 18 months later made a serious public charge; the reason for his disgrace, he said, was that he had accused two superior officers of covering up war crimes...
...officers who had served with him made their first critical statements since the case began. Major General Barnes said that he had given Herbert a command position despite advice against the assignment. Said Barnes; "Fifty-eight days later, I had had Herbert up to here. I have commanded 20 battalion commanders in my time, and Herbert was clearly the worst. He also is the only one I ever relieved...
...however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson's Labor government announced that Britain would withdraw from east of Suez. Now that the Malaysian area has been quietly stabilized, Britain will station there only what the current Conservative government of Edward Heath describes as a "modest insurance premium"-one infantry battalion and a few miscellaneous units in a symbolic ANZUK force of 7,000 men, mainly from Australia and New Zealand. In case of crisis, the five nations will "consult" on what...