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...Directions. ABC Cameraman Terence Khoo and Sam Kai Faye, Singaporeans and close friends, stumbled into withering fire from a North Vietnamese bunker. Sam was wounded and Khoo, though unhurt and technically finished with his Viet Nam hitch, elected to stay with his friend. Their decapitated bodies were found when the bunker was finally captured three days later...
Much of the battle for Quang Tri city is the boredom of fearful waiting: waiting for a 130-mm. shell to come crashing in, waiting for an airstrike to soften up a bunker position, waiting for new troops to arrive with more ammunition and supplies, waiting for headquarters to decide whether to attack or, well, to wait...
...eight candidates for Vice President, including not only Eagleton but also Alaska's Senator Mike Gravel, former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody and Texas State Representative Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold. By the time the roll call finally began, the delegates were in a prankish mood, casting ballots for TV's Archie Bunker, Martha Mitchell and CBS-TV's Roger Mudd. It was, said Mankiewicz, "like the last day of school." Because the clerk misheard a name, one vote was even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally, in a grace note that brought the convention to its feet cheering, the Alabama delegation...
...light goes on, she gets up there and does her number. I guess I'm getting into her profession, so she's getting into mine." Liz Carpenter was philosophical. "If we'd waited until we all loved one another, we'd never have taken Bunker Hill...
...week's end, the South Vietnamese task force at Quang Tri was inching its way forward, with the help of U.S. air strikes, toward the center of Quang Tri city. One such strike, Hillenbrand reported, transformed a thickly wooded enemy bunker position into a cluster of burnt-out tree stumps, "as if some triple-strength forest fire had passed that way." If past performance is any guide, the North Vietnamese will probably put up a mettlesome resistance before withdrawing-and the NVA still has plenty of long-range artillery in the hills to the west of the city. Nonetheless...