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...Thailand's attempts to put down the insurgency. Nonetheless, while Thai soldiers go off to Viet Nam, the U.S. has quietly mounted an effort to help Thailand fight the Communists in the north. It consists of a small and unique U.S. military force, the 606th Air Commando Squadron, whose 66 members wear no uniforms and carry no guns. Their mission is to help the Thai government win allegiance from Northeasterners by supplying needed services, including medical aid and instruction in digging wells or building bridges. TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar recently returned from Northeast Thailand, where he observed...
Along the bristling Jordan River line, Israelis thwarted a planned fedayeen commando strike by landing the "first punch. A burst of Jordanian shells fired at riverbank settlements on the eve of the anniversary drew a ferocious artillery and air bombardment riposte from the Israelis...
...wrapped up in the system to turn on it-and increasingly, as student activists put out calls to the factory for a show of solidarity, they prove him right. Marcuse's answer is to wage revolution with small groups of intellectuals and students. But more than one campus commando has reached the same conclusion as Jürgen Horiemann, 26-year-old West German S.D.S. (Socialist Student League) leader. "We simply are not a power factor in society," he says. "We cannot alone carry out our cultural revolution...
Dangerously Overinflated. Randolph's finest hour came at the same time as his father's-during World War II. Displaying what one of his commanders called "foolish courage," Randolph volunteered for a commando raid hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in North Africa. Then in 1943, defying capture by the Germans, he slipped several times by boat and parachute into enemy-occupied Yugoslavia, where he served as his father's personal envoy to Marshal Tito's partisan bands-a service that made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire, the country...
Anti-Panic Squad. Early last week, they finally arrived within shelling distance of their target. Setting up headquarters with his 105-mm.-howitzer battery in a suburban Anglican churchyard, Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, head of Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando Division ("The Scorpions"), took full charge of the attack, code-naming his immediate area "Hell Sector," the Port Harcourt airport "Iron Sector" and the main area of town "Hate Sector." As federal howitzer, mortar and artillery shells began pounding the fringes of the city at three-minute intervals, young Ibo tribesmen dressed in clean white shirts and ties slapped "Anti...