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...Sometimes they crossed over from Lebanon, sometimes from Syria, where they were actually based. But more often, they sneaked in through Jordan, where King Hussein seemed powerless to stop them. Last week, Israel finally struck back with the white-hot fury of the desert sun itself, launching its biggest, bloodiest, boldest reprisal since the Suez campaign ten years...
...mission of mercy. The pay is $10,000 apiece. The time is the early 1900s. Villa's revolutionaries are up to trouble on both sides of the border, but few can match the hot-eyed fury of Jesus Raza (Jack Palance). "What a name for the bloodiest cutthroat in Mexico!" roars Land Baron Ralph Bellamy. "Last week he kidnaped my wife." When the contraband wife is $100,000 worth of woman like Claudia Cardinale, matters are urgent enough to enlist Lee Marvin as a former Rough Rider, Woody Strode as a cunning scout, Robert Ryan as a nail-hard...
...months of waiting were over, the candidates had made their last pitch, the military disappeared into the barracks for a day. After one of the bitterest and bloodiest years in the country's turbulent history, some 1,200,000 Dominicans finally went to the polls last week for their second free election since 1924. Forecasters had bet on a close result. Instead, Moderate Joaquin Balaguer, 59, won in a landslide, defeating Leftist Juan Bosch, 56, by 745,700 votes to 487,600-almost the same margin by which Bosch himself won the presidency...
...Harry W. O. Kinnard stepped in and declared all of An Khe off limits to his men. Prices soon dropped back toward normal, the disease rates dipped. But the men of the Air Cav, out fighting in the jungles for weeks at a time in some of the bitterest, bloodiest battling of the war, had little to come home to. In March, the division's first cases of "battle fatigue" showed...
...alleys of valleys, recklessly trying to draw fire-which would pinpoint an enemy in the elephant grass below. It was familiar terrain: the Chu Pong massif and Ia Drang valley in the western highlands near Cambodia, the "Valley of Death," where the division last fall had fought the bloodiest battle of the war. Chu Pong was a perfect place to hit the enemy off-balance as he prepared his campaigns for the coming monsoon, and Air Cav Commander Major General Harry W. O. Kinnard had given his Flying Horsemen orders to do just that in Operation Lincoln. But the enemy...