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...just lets you die so he can send his little war materials over here. To hell with this war. We should say, come on in. Ho Chi Minh, this is yours. You can probably do a whole lot better with drove a gas truck for the 815th Army Engineer Battalion...
...Gould's battalion of fans. For them he is a prime example of the kind of film star who needs a wave length more than a makeup man. "There's been a shift in focus of movie heroes and movie stories," says Jules Feiffer, the writer-cartoonist responsible for a new Gould movie, Little Murders. "Out of this shift came the possibility of careers for the likes of Gould, Alan Arkin and Dustin Hoffman. What really happened is that Hollywood is trying to update its mythology, and these are the stars of the new mythology." Mel Stuart, who directed Gould...
...Penh. Cambodian soldiers found a 122-mm. Communist rocket in a town retaken from Communist soldiers only 14 miles north of Phnom-Penh, the closest to the capital that such long-range weapons have been discovered. At week's end some 8,000 civilians and more than a battalion of Cambodian troops were evacuated from two towns in the northeast. Communist forces have controlled most of the area for weeks, and the exodus apparently conceded the urban strongholds as well as the countryside to them...
...climbed sharply. Congratulations flooded into No. 10. The Western Europeans were optimistic because they believed that Heath would press harder to bring Britain into the Common Market. The Australians were delighted because he had pledged that he would retain a defense force east of Suez, if only a token battalion or two in Malaysia...
...dramatic effect on ARVN morale. "When we went across the border," says President Nguyen Van Thieu, "I had almost every general in the country calling me on the phone, saying 'I want to go to Cambodia.'" Ordinarily, 600 ARVN troops would show up for a 4th Marine Battalion roll call in Saigon; last week, after word arrived that the 4th was headed for Cambodia, all 800 showed...