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...offer his youngsters a summer alternative to the city's streets, he organized a vast community task force to activate the Army's semiabandoned Camp Roberts, 250 miles to the north. The city administration came up with a battalion of buses and drivers for the trek, and last week Camp Roberts-home base for the National Guard units that put down the 1965 riots-rocked to Watkins' army of teen-agers in a summer-camp project so successful that it may become an annual event. The children are proud of themselves and proud of Watts. Raising three...
...Vietnamese army was losing a battalion and a district capital to the V.C. every week. The country was almost cut in two across the Highlands...
North Vietnamese generals stationed in the South. COSVN keeps a close watch on all the military and political activities of the Communists in South Viet Nam; its authority is ensured by the fact that even in Viet Cong regular units, one-third of all the officers at battalion level and above are from North Viet Nam?not indigenous guerrillas...
...bomb the area. Air Cavalry troopers landed by helicopter on top of a nest of tunnels in the central province of Quang Ngai, rooted out the North Vietnamese defenders and blew up the bunkers. In the same province, 4th Division troopers flushed an entire North Vietnamese battalion and killed 65, losing only one man themselves...
...late 1966, Premier Ky promised to reopen the waterway no later than May 31. In a determined effort to make good, he sent an army battalion and six 40-man rural-development teams into hamlets along the canal to combat Viet Cong influence. The V.C. countered by murdering local officials, and Ky failed to make his May deadline: parts of the canal are still intermittently under V.C. control...