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Denying Food & Taxes. In a typical operation in the intermediate war, an Air Cav company quietly surrounds a village in the predawn hours, throwing a cordon around its sleeping inhabitants. At dawn, they tighten the noose, moving into the village and taking watchful control. They do nothing else unless, as often happens, a Viet Cong among the villagers foolishly tries to escape the net. Next, in flutters a giant Chinook helicopter carrying a contingent of Vietnamese National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods...
...course, try to come back again; but then so may the Air Cav. Some hard-core villages have received the Air Cav's cordon-and-search treatment no fewer than eleven times. In one three-month stretch recently, the Air Cav conducted 276 such operations-screening 48,470 people, searching 16,111 houses, capturing 789 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and killing 70. In the process, the Air Cav is denying food, taxes, recruits and intelligence to the main-force Communist units hiding in the hills above Binh Dinh, and destroying an infrastructure that the Communists have painstakingly built...
...perennially explosive Watts area was extinguished by swift, steady police action. When a fire broke out in a military-surplus storage yard, it looked like the first spark. Soon rocks were winging at firemen, and Police Chief Thomas J. Reddin ordered a "tactical police alert"; he threw a cordon of 80 cops around the scene of the fire and snuffed out a potential riot...
...Central University, which has long served as a haven for Red activists. A cacophony of student jeers, punctuated by sniper shots, greeted the police, but they quickly seized all key university buildings and began a search for arms and Reds, while a battalion of regular army troops threw a cordon around the campus. It was a rich haul: some 800 suspects, including the 15 leaders of the Communist youth organization and a number of wanted criminals, all of whom were jailed; a huge cache of machine guns, automatic rifles and hand grenades was uncovered...
...Dione Lucas, 57, considered the doyenne of fine cuisine in America. Trained at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, she opened a Manhattan branch in 1941, wrote The Cordon Bleu Cook Book, and was one of the pioneer TV chefs in 1947. Her specialty was omelets, and for a while she held forth at her own restaurant, the Egg Basket; now she fills in by doing the cooking at the Ginger Man, a fashionable pub near Lincoln Center...