Word: battlefronts
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...only two stories to report: an extraordinary kind of war, and an extraordinary kind of government, in which the figure of the President is shadowed by his brother, who wields strong police power, and by his tiny sister-in-law-who holds no office at all. At the battlefront, both U.S. military observers and the Vietnamese brass blandly tell the newsmen stories that blatantly contradict evidence obvious to the journalists' eyes. In Saigon, the ruling family is reserved, aloof, openly hostile; it does not trust the Western correspondents-and does not trouble to hide its feelings...
...guns, an army of "brave lads" heroically helps Rumania throw off the Turkish yoke. The time is 1877. All the soldiers talk like British guards officers. Yet Sadoveanu sometimes had the writing skill to make compelling even quite traditional reactions to old-fashioned war: soldiers' delight in a battlefront feast on stolen turkey; a young sergeant's awe at the presence of a beautiful woman in the convalescent hospital; the guilty confusion of victorious troopers who, seeking vengeance among new-taken prisoners, find not the bloodthirsty enemy they hate but an abject lot of human animals...
...believes, is part of a climactic, worldwide tug of war between the forces of "human" man and "antihuman" man that transcends political boundaries. "The arming for the final battle of the Homo humanus against the Homo contrahumanus started in the depth" of the heart, Buber said years ago. "The battlefront is split into as many individual fronts as there are nations, and those who stand at one of the individual fronts do not know the others. Dawn still shrouds the struggle, but on its outcome depends whether the human race will eventually become a human entity...
Along the jungle battlefront in Laos, not much was happening. Soldiers lounged barefoot within stockades built of sharpened bamboo stakes-thought to be protection enough in a country where the elephant charge has fallen out of fashion and the tank has not yet been introduced. But the cold-war clamor was as loud as ever. The U.S. last week gave the royal Laotian army four T-6 trainers, a lumbering plane that is nonetheless the hottest thing Laotian pilots can handle. They flew them north into the Communist-held countryside, wildly firing .30-cal. machine guns and 5-in. rockets...
Missing Town. Reports from the remote battlefront were hard as ever to decipher. Information Minister Bouavan Norasingh called in newsmen one day and announced that "three battalions of Russians, Pathet Lao and Viet Minh" had just invaded from North Viet Nam near the town of Ban Le. But when pressed, Information Minister Bouavan had to admit that he had no idea where Ban Le was. All that seemed to be going on for sure was a buildup by both sides around the Plaine des Jarres, the strategic central plateau captured by pro-Communist Captain Kong Le a week earlier with...