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...standard battlefield uniform was a camouflage jungle suit, a baseball cap with three stars and a baton that, he joked, was always on hand "to spank the Viet Cong." He relished the spotlight and was candid enough to admit it. "I like being a hero," he said with disarming frankness during last year's Cambodian invasion. Less well known was the fact that the "Patton of Parrot's Beak," as he came to be nicknamed, was also a skillful administrator who had commanded three of South Viet Nam's four military districts and at times was considered...
Actually, North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas are so widely dispersed that no crushing blow is possible. The U.S. could destroy Hanoi and other population centers with tactical nukes-that is, if it wanted to ensure Peking's entry into the conflict, or even risk World...
...command also reported that fighting had picked up in eastern Cambodia, where they reported having killed 140 Viet Cong troops. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said yesterday South Vietnamese troops may soon be involved in heavy fighting in Cambodia as well as Laos...
...ironic that Robert van Leer's description of the Viet Cong torture of an American soldier is precisely the same as the mode of torture (a cage of starving rats placed over a person's head) described in Orwell...
...quality, it made him a superb photographer. He won his first Capa award for a 1963 LIFE spread showing the unrelenting savagery of the war. He won again after a 1965 flight with a Marine helicopter squadron airlifting a battalion of Vietnamese infantry to an isolated area. The Viet Cong were waiting for them, and the choppers came under heavy fire. Burrows caught the action and the agony of that futile mission...