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Violence erupted on Monday, when the First Battalion of Tanganyika's Army mutinied in Dar es Salaam. The army objected to a low pay scale and to the continuance of British officers in positions of command...
Maps v. Victory. Fortnight ago, 35 miles northwest of Saigon, a 400-man battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers found itself pinned down on a scrub-smothered river bank by 800 wellarmed, dug-in guerrillas. U.S. advisers suddenly saw a rare chance: here was a Communist regiment that was prepared to stand and fight the set-piece battle that Vietnamese generals claimed they so ardently desired. If the Reds would only stay in one place, they could easily be surrounded...
Imperfect Circle. Five days later, 30 miles south of Saigon, a paratroop battalion surprised and gamely engaged Viet Cong Battalion 514, which a year ago inflicted a major defeat on the government in the notorious battle of Apbac. Now grown from 250 to possibly 600 men, Battalion 514 stopped the paratroopers with machine-gun fire. Out went a call for help, but it was slow to arrive. Armed American helicopters on stand-by duty 20 minutes away in Saigon were not called in by the Vietnamese until three hours after the initial contact...
Finally, the Viet Cong were virtually surrounded by the original paratroop unit, a second paratroop battalion, infantry and civil guardsmen, and were being pounded by air and artillery that killed or wounded an estimated 100 Reds. But the second paratroop battalion, ordered to move in and block a Viet Cong retreat, timidly stood off, leaving great gaps through which the bulk of the Reds escaped at dusk...
MIGs & Rockets. Above the reviewing stand in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución screamed supersonic MIG-21 Russian fighters, now flown, said announcers, "by Cuban youngsters." Below rolled an hour-long parade of Russian-made tanks, artillery, armored cars, rocket launchers-and battalion after battalion of tough-looking, Russian-trained troops. "We alone." shouted Castro, "could not have resisted imperialism-the blockades, the aggressions, the economic strangulation. But with these arms, we can fight against the best-equipped forces of the imperialist Army...