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That point was well illustrated last week when the Viet Cong guerrillas struck punishingly across the Mekong Delta. For the umpteenth time, an army battalion hurrying to relieve an outpost under attack-this time 120 miles south of Saigon-walked into an ambush in broad daylight...
...soldiers in Cyprus, has also pumped in fresh forces from the mainland. But the Turkish Cypriots, lacking the control of the main ports that Makarios' men enjoy, have had to adopt unorthodox import techniques that make it impossible to bring in as many reinforcements as the Greeks. One battalion of perhaps 200 paratroopers was recently dropped clandestinely along the 15-mile-long road from Nicosia to coastal Kyrenia, where the legal Turkish regiment keeps watch over the only outlet from the capital the Turkish Cypriots control. Along with the troops, the Turkish planes dropped bundles of tommy guns, rifles...
...mating game has always been the Summer School's favorite pastime, but in recent years Cupid has had a battalion of assistants working out of Matthews Hall...
...sandy-haired man, Johnson was a lieutenant colonel with the 57th Infantry (Philippine Scouts) when the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941. He was captured, endured the infamous Bataan death march, survived three years in Japanese prison camps. In Korea in 1950, he took command of a combat infantry battalion, fought through the bloody defense of the Pusan perimeter and later was named a regimental commander. Back in the U.S., Johnson became commandant of the Army's elite Command and General Staff College. There he coined a slogan, "Challenge the Assertion"-an attitude that has since...
Lieut. General Creighton W. Abrams, 49, new Army Vice Chief of Staff, replaces retiring General Barksdale Hamlett. From the moment the 37th tank battalion, which he commanded, rolled into action in Normandy in July 1944, "Abe" Abrams showed the feel and flair of a born combat man. Leading the sweep of General George Patton's Third Army across Europe, he would lean from his Sherman tank, chomping on a huge cigar, and rally his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams: "I like to get out on the point where there's nothing...