Word: combating
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Nearly half the ten U.S. combat divisions in Viet Nam are jammed into I Corps, the northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, facing a potent concentration of Communist regulars (see overleaf). There is growing concern that the 5,000 Marines at the besieged outpost of Khe Sanh can be overrun by the North Vietnamese infantry divisions that are inexorably tightening the circle around them. Warned Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell: "I am afraid this position may be difficult to defend. I hope we will be able to reinforce our troops there sufficiently." Even South Viet...
...ablest, brightest and most honest officers in the Vietnamese army. He replaces General Nguyen Van Manh, a portly, indecisive officer who has presided over the steady disintegration of the government's Delta position. In II Corps, which comprises the Central Highlands, General Lu Lan, a respected combat officer, took over from General Vinh Loc, a relative of deposed Emperor Bao Dai, who had earned himself the sobriquet "Lord of the High Plateau." And, in an effort to remove some of the temptations of leadership, Thieu last week decided that henceforth province chiefs would report directly to Saigon rather than...
...level Saigon in a "second wave" of attacks on South Viet Nam's cities, the Communists kept up a steady drumfire of rockets and mortars on the capital. And the U.S. command announced that for the week ending Feb. 17, a record number of 543 Americans died in combat, bringing to 2,200 the number of U.S. dead so far this year...
...complicated by issues that had little to do with students, classrooms, or educational quality. Kirk, Florida's first Republican Governor of this century and an aspirant to the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, is engaged in a political struggle with the Democratic-controlled legislature. The N.E.A. is locked in combat with the American Federation of Teachers for the loyalty of the nation's restive teachers. Its fight is well-organized and well-financed. Association officers traveled by hydrofoil to a meeting in Miami's Marine Stadium; a Lear Jet was chartered for two days for more than...
Died. 2nd Lieut. Richard W. Pershing, 24, grandson of World War 1's General of the Armies John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing; of combat wounds; near Quang Tri, Viet Nam. A Yale graduate who received his Army commission seven months ago, Pershing went to Viet Nam and was leading a patrol in search of a member of his platoon when he was killed in a Viet Cong ambush...