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Charles had endured another grueling trial in Her Majesty's Service, this time a taste of commando assault training, the Tarzan and ropes course. "He doesn't lack for fitness," allowed a Royal Marines' spokesman. Prince Charles must have blanched, however, when commanded to negotiate a 20-ft. high tree-to-tree ropewalk. The whole adventure was clearly one he would just as soon never try again. Said he: "A most horrifying expedition...
...gray dawn ten years ago, five U.S. soldiers were killed and twelve wounded during a Communist commando attack on Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long province. That marked the Viet Cong's first offensive against the picturesque hill town of about 25,000 people located 75 miles north of Saigon on a bend of the Song Be River. Last week, after a violent six-day siege of the city, the Communists finally captured Phuoc Binh. During the drive they also took a key crossroads and two airstrips, as well as every village and town in Phuoc Long province...
...predecessors, Private Teruo Nakamura was motivated to hold out both by fear of capture and fidelity to orders. After a final banzai charge against invading U.S. troops failed in January 1945, radio contact between Tokyo and Morotai was lost. Nakamura, who was separated from other members of his commando unit, managed to avoid capture and built a grass hut deep in the jungle. He survived by raising potatoes and picking bananas off the trees. "My commanding officer told me to fight it out," he explained. Last month he was spotted by a Morotai native, who alerted Indonesian authorities. Four airmen...
...late spring, when the weather is right for military operations, and the mandates expire for the U.N. buffer forces now stationed in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Short of war, both the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to continue their cross-border terrorist and commando raids...
...armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were too devastated to mount, the warfare has resulted in the deaths of at least 800 Israelis and the wounding of 2,350. In savage, eye-for-eye retribution, the Israelis have returned terror for terror?usually in the form of attacks on commando strongholds and Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Syria and the West Bank. In all, more than 3,300 have died in these raids. Beyond that, the Israelis formed supersecret death squads that were responsible for killing more than 100 suspected Arab operatives in various parts of the world...