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...hell of a beating up there" at Dak To. "It sort of looks as if we ought to be putting some more troops in," says Edmunds. Specialist 4/C Francis E. Rodriguez, 21, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, a rifleman in the 9th's 2nd Brigade, agrees. "I think our biggest mistake was stopping the bombing up North," he says. "As soon as we pull out, there's going to be beaucoup trouble...
...months in Viet Nam, Jaramillo has known fear, boredom and disillusionment. His biggest worry: "Getting killed. I just couldn't see myself getting killed. Some nights I don't worry, 'cause you know nothing is going to happen. Some nights I don't even feel safe in the bunker. I've seen guys at night just crying. Let the guy cry. It's helping him. I cried. Two good buddies of mine got hit, but it's over with and you can't keep thinking about it." He does think about...
...through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union before tackling the job of writing this week's cover story on the state of world Communism. Tinnin's tour amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees all over the world. Tinnin quickly sent a cable informing...
Help from the North. The whole debate has been intensified by the discovery of a huge pool of oil under the snows of Alaska's North Slope. The biggest new find in the U.S. since the East Texas strike of 1930, the North Slope promises to lessen U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East. Walter Levy, internationally known oil consultant, estimates the find could run as high as 20 billion barrels, enough to increase U.S. reserves by two-thirds...
Spain's biggest postwar industrialist, Eduardo Barreiros, in 1964 made what he then called "the best and most stimulating deal of my life." For $18 million, he sold a 35% interest in his family-owned Barreiros Diesel S.A. to Chrysler Corp., and the company started producing Dodge Darts and French Simcas in Spain. "There are no better business partners than the Americans," he said. Today he thinks differently. He has quit as president of the firm because, although the deal greatly increased his wealth, he sank in a few years from Spain's No. 1 industrialist...