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...biggest target was the rugged, bomb-pocked Demilitarized Zone, where two North Vietnamese divisions have been massing for several months and funneling forces over the border. Last week one battalion of the 26th Marine Regiment had been searching for infiltrating forces for two days, when the infiltrators suddenly turned up under cover of fog and attacked two Marine positions. To back up the Marines, B-52 bombers swarmed in from Guam for the second straight week and blasted the area around the zone...
...commanding general of Fort Ord, Calif., was surprised to receive this letter, written last month by 43 members of A Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade. First, recruits do not often write letters to the commanding general. Second, when they do write, they rarely praise drill instructors, their traditional scourge. But the most significant fact about the letter is that it was composed by white men-all but two of them from Texas-in praise of their drill instructor, Staff Sergeant Joshua Ashley, a Negro. No presidential report could better document the dramatic gains in status and esteem that the Negro...
...previously inviolate campus of Caracas' Central University, which has long served as a haven for Red activists. A cacophony of student jeers, punctuated by sniper shots, greeted the police, but they quickly seized all key university buildings and began a search for arms and Reds, while a battalion of regular army troops threw a cordon around the campus. It was a rich haul: some 800 suspects, including the 15 leaders of the Communist youth organization and a number of wanted criminals, all of whom were jailed; a huge cache of machine guns, automatic rifles and hand grenades was uncovered...
...Army, the diplomacy, political savvy and staff skills of a career officer may prove as pivotal as his mastery of firepower; needed are not rote answers but a broad background of educational experience. "The fellow who spent his whole career first as a platoon leader, then company commander, then battalion adjutant just doesn't exist any more," explains Lieut. Colonel William F. Leubbert, Ph.D., one of the Point's professors. "Now he's dealing with Government contractors, diplomats and politicians as much as he deals with the Army...
...month last year to 7,000 at present. Still, military men believe that the infiltration rate would probably be much higher without the bombings. Their value was dramatically illustrated two weeks ago when, according to U.S. officers in Saigon, American planes sighted a 600-man North Vietnamese battalion moving through Mu Gia Pass, one of the prime portals to the South. The planes swooped in and virtually wiped out the battalion...