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From the U.S. to Sweden to Taiwan, many nations are exploring the potential of CBW, and Soviet scientists are perhaps the busiest in the field. The Russian army has chemical-war fare specialists down to the battalion level, and the Russians probably provided the lethal nerve gas used by the Egyptians in Yemen last year...
...second Communist drive pressed on Tay Ninh from the North. A Viet Cong battalion tried to storm the 25th Division's fire base "Buell." The U.S. ar tillerymen depressed their 105-mm. and 155-mm. tubes, firing pointblank "beehive" rounds of metal slivers that turned back the assault. In only one sector of the town were the Communists tem porarily successful, as they infiltrated almost two battalions into the southern fringes of Tay Ninh. In the ensuing battle, the allies were sorely tempted to use heavy weapons on dug-in Communist forces. Bomb-laden jets actually circled over...
Oppenheimer's military judgment is hard to fault. A Marine reserve officer since World War II, when he led a battalion ashore at Okinawa, he was called up for Korea, returned last May from a combat tour in Viet Nam, and last month pinned on his brigadier general's stars...
Despite his 5-ft. 7-in., 132-lb. size, he be came at 23 the youngest battalion commander in the Corps. Reluctantly mustered out at war's end, he began running his family's Kansas City interests (an auto agency, small loan and real-estate operations). Not until 1953, when his stepfather, Jules Stein, founder of MCA, asked Oppenheimer to buy him land and cattle as a tax shelter, did the ex-Marine find a new field to conquer...
Last week, at her first press conference back in the Governor's man sion, she bravely, if nervously, faced a battalion of reporters. "I'm not the speechmaker of the family," she said, "I'm the homemaker and mother." But she answered questions, some of them rude, with ingenuous spirit. To explicit queries about her weight (140 Ibs. at 5 ft. 4 in.) and dieting, she allowed: "I try to eat just sliced chicken at lunch, but I get sick of it: sometimes I think I'm going to start cackling myself." She tries to avoid...