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...Hill 31, an ARVN airborne battalion was locked in a ferocious seesaw struggle with a Communist force of up to 2,000 men, backed by Soviet-made PT-76 light tanks. As the fighting raged, the smoking hulks of broken Communist tanks and shattered U.S. helicopters littered the battlefield; B-52 strikes thundered so close, said a downed chopper crewman, that the dust "made our eyes water." Though the outcome of the battle remained in doubt at week's end, the Lam Son toll was already substantial: in three weeks, no less than five ARVN battalions...
...next year. U.S. military commanders plan to send ARVN troops back into Laos and Cambodia as often as necessary to keep South Viet Nam secure. The South Vietnamese might not be so enthusiastic about the idea, however, if they were handed an embarrassing defeat on the battlefield. At week's end, with the Communist resistance in Laos growing in ferocity, the possibility of such a defeat could not be ruled...
Away from the battlefield, his most recent assignment was the East Pakistan cyclone and tidal wave. To much of the world, it was Burrows' color pictures that finally translated the enormity of that disaster into reality. For as good as he was with action pictures, Burrows was a master of mood; his pictures of the Taj Mahal and Cambodia's Angkor temples are classics...
...provocative manifestation of God's will (or pure fortune), who appeared at the last moment to rally Charles' forces and save the country. But it was from the Dauphin, Louis, that leadership came to knit up the raveled threads of French life after St. Joan's battlefield miracle. Hung with epithets ("The universal spider," which referred to the scope and stickiness of his machinations, was one of the mildest), he eventually took his place in history as Louis XI, a giant and an ogre, a bloodstained, gloomy tyrant who forged a unitary state out of warring fragments...
...Only the battlefield was changed. The exam resumed in another building...