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Fluttering high above the craggy mountains and lush rolling hills in northern Thailand, the tiny, single-engine aircraft picked its way through the mist, in search of a village airstrip. "I think that's it," the pilot shouted to a companion over the whine of the engine. Dipping down through the clouds, the plane came in at treetop level, then bounced into a 700-ft. clearing. Eager tribeswomen in turbans and blue-striped frocks rushed toward the visitors, smiling through betel-stained teeth. Their menfolk set about happily unloading medicine, food, seed and other supplies. "This...
...Made a similarly hefty dent in the military aid bill, companion measure to the economic bill, cutting by $125 million the Administration's $917 million request. Some $636 million in military aid for South Viet Nam, included in the defense-appropriations bill, was not affected...
...aviator in 1964. Shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos last February, it took him until June 27 to escape. He and another U.S. pilot slogged through the jungle for 20 days, living on roots and bananas, until a North Vietnamese patrol snared Dengler's companion. While the Navyman watched in horror from cover, the Reds summarily beheaded Dengler's buddy. Three days later Dengler was rescued by an Air Force "Jolly Green" helicopter-and of course the Russians immediately claimed that Dengler was a West German "mercenary" in American disguise, one of many (claimed...
...Lucky." The savage fate of Dengler's companion was shared by six U.S. Marines wounded in a fierce mor tar barrage near the 17th parallel, where Operation Hastings continued to take a heavy toll of Red dead last week. The Marines, helpless and unreachable by their own medical corpsmen, were mercilessly slaughtered by North Vietnamese regulars. "During the night, the North Viets came," said one survivor of the massacre, a radio operator whose abdomen had been ripped by shell fragments. "They took my cigarettes and my watch, but they didn't shoot me. They must have looked...
...only folk offended by such a clean bill of health were the Gammler themselves. Sniffed one T shirt at a coffeehouse in Hamburg: "It's impossible to work during the day and gammeln at night." At that point, his companion had to leave the table for a minute. He explained that he had to call his mother and tell her he would be home late...