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...problem is far from solved. But the day of the New Arab he predicted does indeed seem to be emerging. Last week thousands upon thousands of Arabs were fighting Israelis-with a skill and determination they had never shown during the disastrous Six-Day War of 1967-in the bloodiest conflict in the modern history of the Middle East. At week's end the outcome was in doubt, though the tide of battle seemed to be turning slowly in favor of the Israelis. While fighting continued in the Sinai, Israel managed to put a force...
...strategic imperative for both Israel and Syria. When Syria holds the Heights, it threatens the fertile Israeli settlements in the upper Galilee region. When the Israelis hold it, they have a flat, unimpeded access to Damascus, only 40 miles away. In this war, the Golan witnessed some of the bloodiest combat ever waged in the Middle East. When we drove our orange Volkswagen into the area, we at first passed the rusting tanks of the 1967 war. Soon we encountered freshly destroyed tanks, Syrian and Israeli...
That was the bloodiest area of battle as the hour passed in which all shooting in Viet Nam was supposed to stop. Both sides fought viciously to seize and hold tiny bits of territory, sometimes of strategic, but often only of symbolic value, before the truce supervisory bodies would arrive to validate the claims of defacto control. These battles for the "leopard spots" of South Viet Nam took a heavy toll. By week's end the South Vietnamese claimed to have killed 3,513 Communist soldiers after the cease-fire deadline, and they admitted the loss...
...Viet Nam War was not the bloodiest in U.S. history?despite nearly 50,000 dead by enemy action plus another 300,000 wounded. Americans suffered more casualties in the Civil War and the two World Wars. Physically speaking, most Americans were untouched by the war. There were no airraid drills; they did not have to fear for their lives (and now the draft has ended). Business went on pretty much as usual. Psychologically, however, Americans had never endured such...
Through it all, Ulstermen-Protestant and Catholic-remain an incredibly sturdy breed, very warm and hospitable. A reporter develops fondnesses, even for some of the bloodiest of them; the shock is great when a man who has had you in for tea one week is found shot dead the next, his body stuffed into the back of a car. The North is both a sickening and a fascinating place. Nonetheless, there is something appealing about the brutal honesty of its politics, even the ear-scraping Northern accent, at least when compared with the soft-spoken hypocrisy one finds...