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...staff meeting probably will begin at 4 p. m.-one hour before a scheduled battalion formation of the 146 men in the AROTC program. Scovell said he will tell these men how they can help keep AROTC at Harvard-by canvassing, for example...
Before the massacre, My Lai was a poor hamlet in Quang Ngai province, whose low, marshy coastal plains had been-and still are-a base for the Viet Cong 48th Battalion. My Lai was a "fortified" hamlet whose bricked-up houses served as bunkers for marauding V.C. cadres, and was known to the G.I.s in the area as "Pinkville...
Elsewhere, the fighting was pretty much "Vietnamized." In northern Quang Nam province, South Vietnamese regional force troops captured 58 of the enemy and killed another 130, including a battalion commander and a Communist district chief. Meanwhile, in the Mekong Delta, ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops and Marines struck back at North Vietnamese forces that had bested them in previous skirmishes...
...major test of ARVN stamina may take place in the Central Highlands, where some 7,000 North Vietnamese regulars have been pressing the ARVN's 23rd Division. In one engagement near Bu Prang, 110 miles north of Saigon, North Vietnamese troops charged an ARVN battalion, creating such confusion that two South Vietnamese A-37 jets, called in to provide air support, accidentally bombed ARVN troops...
...hand of a U.S. military policeman with a machete. In June, two American military police who had rushed to a bar in response to complaints that a drunken G.I. was making trouble were shot to death by Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Viet Can, commander of the Vietnamese airborne battalion that guards President Thieu's Independence Palace. No charges were filed against the colonel...