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...unique Pentagon ceremony, hanging the star-spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that often prompts Viet Cong snipers to single out the aid man as he moves to wounded comrades. Hagemeister raced through machine-gun fire when his platoon was ambushed in central Viet Nam in March 1967. He defended the wounded with a borrowed rifle, killing four attackers and silencing a machine gun. Summoning help...
...Force Captain Gerald O. Young, 38, was attempting to evacuate an embattled Army scout team deep inside Viet Cong country in November when his "Jolly Green Giant" rescue helicopter was raked by automatic weapons and exploded in flames. His clothes afire, Young was severely burned. Disregarding his own injuries, he gave first aid to a stunned survivor from the wreck, then waved off rescuers after spotting an enemy flak trap. Drifting in and out of shock for 17 hours, Young hobbled and crawled six miles to a clearing before signaling for help...
Hundreds of flags flapped from balconies: black anarchist, red hammer-and-sickle, blue and red Viet Cong, and red, white and blue Cuban. French "Red Guards" strung up posters proclaiming such sentiments as "It's forbidden to forbid" and "Humanity will not be happy until the last capitalist is hanged with the entrails of the last bureaucrat." The stone bust of Auguste Comte, the 19th century French philosopher-reformer who coined the term sociology, was draped with a red bandanna; a red flag adorned the statue of Louis Pasteur. Inside, in jampacked auditoriums, thousands applauded allright debates that ranged...
...battlefields of South Viet Nam these days. In military terms, the war is largely a standoff, with no prospect in sight that either side can deliver a knockout punch to the other. But to help out the Communists negotiating with the U.S. in Paris, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have adopted what might be called a strategy of appearances...
During his campaign, Huong indicated that he would be willing to sit down and negotiate with the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front if he were certain that it would assure "genuine peace and freedom" for South Viet Nam. Those sentiments do not endear him to Ky and his followers, who are far more fretful than Thieu about the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris. Ky, in fact, was off in Nha Trang when Thieu changed Premiers last week, a fact that led Saigon's hyperactive gossip mills to conclude that Ky might decide to plot a coup...