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...often. Taking a wrong turn at the 30th of March Avenue, two paratroopers in a Jeep blundered into rebel territory, swiftly realized their mistake and pointed their rifle muzzles down as a signal of truce. They were cut down in a flurry of fire. Next day a marine convoy of two Jeeps and a three-quarter-ton truck again drove by accident into rebel territory. Four marines died, one was wounded, two captured. At rebel headquarters, Caamaño and Aristy gloatingly interrogated the marines before U.S. newsmen. Then they let them go. "You see, I am a humanitarian," said...
...that turned out to see Rudolf Nureyev on the Royal Ballet's opening night. Then off to Norfolk, Va., for a luncheon speech on Viet Nam. Up to Washington to present awards to Agriculture Department employees whose ideas had saved the Government money. Down to Orlando, Fla., to convoy Astronaut John Young on his triumphal return home. Then on to North Carolina for a Sunday at Civil War historical ceremonies. So the Vice President of the U.S., Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 53, is having trouble keeping busy...
...Diploma. Guatemala has been in a state of siege since February, when terrorists ambushed an army convoy, killing 15 soldiers. The guerrillas, some 300 strong, are led by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a former army lieutenant who holds a diploma from the U.S. Army counterinsurgency school in Panama. There have also been reports of smaller-scale guerrilla activity in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Honduras...
...regimental G-4 to get the affair organized and equipped. They assembled mountains of bedrolls and air mattresses, got hold of two huge circus tents and scores of pup tents for four overnight stops, arranged to have hot meals trucked out, lined up 32 portable latrines, a convoy of garbage trucks and a fleet of ambulances...
Digging In. Meanwhile the South Vietnamese were doing some new and welcome convoying of their own last week. Route 19, connecting the port of Quinhon with inland Pleiku, had been closed for a month because of the danger of ambush along its winding 100-mile course through the Viet Conginfested countryside. But with troops, armored cars and overflying helicopters as escorts, a 168-vehicle convoy punched through to Pleiku with 300 tons of much-needed supplies. Two days later, a 77-truck convoy repeated the trip...