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With a barrage of decrees, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi's regime last week began clearing away the rubble of black Africa's bloodiest military coup. "Firm, honest and disciplined leadership" was what he promised a nationwide radio audience. More important, if less certain, was his pledge that "the federal military government will preserve Nigeria as one strong nation...
...bloodiest military coup any black African nation has yet suffered. At least 40 civilians and 24 army officers were killed, and throughout the week bullet-stitched bodies kept turning up in such unlikely places as the 13th tee of a Lagos golf course. It was all the more shocking because Nigeria in its five years of independence has been held up as a showcase of stable African democracy. Unfortunately, the showcase was badly cracked long before the coup that shattered...
...Pierce the Apathy. Either way, Lyndon Johnson did not help his cause in 1965 by a lack of candor on the severity of the war or the scope of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. "Light" and "moderate" are still the official euphemisms to describe U.S. losses in even the bloodiest engagements...
Death on Date Palm Hill. Into the Chu Pong massif-scene of the bloodiest encounter between American and North Vietnamese regulars to date-swept a multi-battalion relief force of rested, rambunctious South Vietnamese paratroopers. As U.S. planes plastered the jungly ridges (in some 600 sorties since Nov. 14), the South Vietnamese paras roared in behind the bomb blasts looking for "an opportunity to show their fighting skills." During their first day, they killed 180 Reds. Then the North Vietnamese pulled back to lick their wounds, much to the paratroopers' disgust. There was fighting in plenty, however, around...
...real contact with the enemy. The chance of real battle seemed lost until last week, when the U.S. abruptly found its foe in the shadow of Chu Pong Mountain (see map). The result was the first major encounter between U.S. and North Vietnamese regular troops-and the biggest, bloodiest and most brutal losses for both sides...