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...Viet Cong left behind them trails of blood indicating that several had been wounded. One was captured, turned out to be a North Vietnamese soldier named Do Xuan Hien, 29, who under questioning said that he had infiltrated into South Viet Nam three months ago with his entire battalion and had trained for the Danang raid for a month...
...Army Sergeant Harold G. Bennett, 25, of Perryville, Ark., a radio operator captured by the Viet Cong last December while serving as an adviser to a South Vietnamese Ranger battalion, was executed. According to Radio Hanoi, Bennett was put to death in reprisal for recent public executions of Viet Cong terrorists by the Saigon regime (see THE WORLD...
Among the riflemen were lots of would-be Wyatt Earps, backed up by 300 impatient gunners of a U.S. artillery battalion. But so far, there was not a sign that the Viet Cong would test their perimeter, and through the long, hot days the troops were getting bored. As a precaution they were digging their foxholes a little bit deeper. As one paratrooper put it: "The longer we stay here, the more of a target we become...
...entirely by surprise; his intelligence chiefs have been warning for the past ten months that Peru's Communist Party has been reorganizing for agitation, sabotage and insurrection. After last week's incidents, the government ordered 400 civil guards to track down the guerrillas and alerted an army battalion to move into the area if the Communists were spotted. Belaúnde's long-range hope is to contain the guerrillas until his own self-help housing, health, and road-building plans begin to make an impression on the long-neglected Indians, rendering them less susceptible to Communist...
...Effects of Despair. In terms of overall performance, South Viet Nam's military establishment cannot be rated as anything better than middling. After all, it has neither won nor approached victory in eleven years of existence. Many units break and run in battle, as did the 39th Ranger Battalion earlier this year. The 39th became known as "the roadrunners." But during the Quangngai fight "the roadrunners" stood their ground on a conical hill called Nuitran. There 108 of them were wiped out, erasing in the process the slur on their battalion's name...