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...fight the losing battle against the Red Viet Minh. As a sergeant, he quickly learned the taste of defeat. After the French withdrawal, he transferred to the Royal Laotian Army as a paratroop lieutenant only to taste more of it. Kong Le's was a battalion of troubleshooters. Whenever the Pathet Lao got particularly obnoxious, he and his men were sent out from Vientiane over jungle villages to float down silently and kill. Often they dropped without supplies, fought their way back on a bullet a day, gratifying their taste for toads and bamboo shoots along the route. Kong...
Waiting for Neutralism. Back home, Captain Kong Le was promoted to command of the 1st Parachute Battalion of the Royal Army. But the promotion did little to ease his growing dislike of conditions in Laos. The 1954 Indo-China armistice had handed the Pathet Lao two sections of the country-Sam-nueua and Phongsaly-bordering Communist China and North Viet Nam. The International Control Commission, made up of Polish, Indian and Canadian delegations, was theoretically responsible for keeping any faction from bringing in more troops and arms, but the Pathet Lao ignored the ban; Viet Minh cadres poured across...
Breaking a six-week lull in the war, a 600-man Viet Cong battalion stormed the district capital of Duchoa (pop.7,000) west of Saigon before dawn, ran into determined resistance by the outnumbered, 140-man garrison. Vietnamese Rangers barricaded inside a day nursery stopped one Viet Cong company at the edge of town. When the guerrillas opened fire on two U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers defending the local military headquarters, the platoon of Vietnamese artillerymen shortened their fuses to 2 sec., slammed shells into the breaches, and blasted away pointblank at anything that moved-firing an awesome 322 rounds...
...reasonably ursine on TV but on the giant screen resembles an enormous and rather soggy cinnamon cookie. He lives in Jellystone National Park but talks like a bear from the Bronx Zoo. "Duh," he announces, "I'm smahtuh dan de avidge bayuh." To prove it he assembles a battalion of "trained picnic ants" and sends them to steal chocolate cakes from tourists. Then he runs off to rescue a nifty little beige bear named Cindy from the clutches of the Chizzling Brothers, who-oh, heck, who cares? Certainly not the people (Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera) who are unscrupulously...
Westmoreland commanded an artillery battalion in the 1942 invasion of North Africa, fought in Tunisia and Sicily. On D-day he landed on Utah beach as executive officer of the 9th Infantry Division. After the war, he served as chief of staff of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, led airborne troops in the Korean war, at 43 became the youngest major general in the Army, commanded the 101st Airborne Division, served as superintendent of West Point...