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...secured: the paratroopers to clear the approaches to the Duarte Bridge into Santo Domingo, the marines to carve a 3.5-sq.-mi. "international zone" out of the city as a refuge for U.S. nationals and anyone else who hoped to remain alive in a city gone berserk in the bloodiest civil war in recent Latin American history...
...together for some in tertribal bagataway - lacrosse,* in pale face language - outside Quebec's Fort Michilimackinac. Invited to watch the fun, the Fort's entire garrison gathered on the sidelines. Whereupon the braves dropped their bagataway sticks, grabbed their tomahawks, and staged one of the bloodiest massacres in Canadian history...
Last Stand. The defeat of the Armada is the historic climax of Hakluyt's saga; but the literary climax is attained in Sir Walter Raleigh's recreation of the bloodiest sea battle of the age: the last stand of the Revenge...
...grotesque, funereal procession, the Vietnamese marine convoy pulled out of the rubber plantation-twelve truckloads of the living preceded by trucks and carts piled with dead. Thus, after seven days, ended the battle of Binhgia -longest and bloodiest of the South Vietnamese war. There were a few parting Red ambushes. In one a U.S. captain, leaping from a shattered Jeep, found himself staring down the muzzle of a rifle held by a helmeted, uniformed Communist soldier, shot the guerrilla between the eyes. Then the Viet Cong vanished as swiftly as they had attacked. The final score: 195 government troops dead...
WORLD WAR I (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). The battle of Verdun, the bloodiest of them all: 1,250,000 French and German casualties...