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...circles around the heavily favored cadets to lead Navy to a stunning upset. The next year he became the fourth college player in history to win the Heisman Trophy in his junior year. A year and a half later he was commissioned an ensign and later was sent to Danang, South Viet Nam, as a supply officer...
Rolling along Route 1 near Danang last week, the driver of a U.S. Army tractor trailer was forced to hit the brakes when a vehicle in front of him abruptly slowed. The tractor trailer jackknifed, knocking a minibus loaded with Vietnamese veterans off the highway. The bus was the last vehicle in the funeral cortege of the leader of an antigovernment veterans' faction, who had been killed by a gunman in Danang. Eight of the veterans were injured, three seriously...
...rough (see box, page 24); police beat up and arrested one opposition politician, Tran Tuan Nham, who made the mistake of using a picture of Nixon with a Hitler mustache as a campaign poster. And for the second time in two weeks a crippled veteran set himself ablaze in Danang to protest Thieu's election tactics. Saigon's Disabled Veterans Association grimly announced that it had 40 more volunteers ready to follow his fiery example...
...Saigon. The breaking point came in May 1966 when Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, then the country's military strongman, provoked another Buddhist outburst by saying that he would remain in office another year, postponing the scheduled elections. After dissident South Vietnamese soldiers and Buddhists seized control of Danang and Hue, Ky moved in troops of his own without consulting the U.S. Reacting with what the Pentagon analysts called "unrestrained fury," the State Department cabled the embassy to stop the fighting. "This may require tough talk," read the dispatch, "but the U.S. cannot accept this insane bickering." Marine General Lewis...
...just below the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Their repair of long unused road and river infiltration routes directly through the DMZ bodes ill for northern I Corps, always a vulnerable area and the scene of the war's bloodiest battles. Already Vietnamese have begun fleeing from the countryside into Danang, fearful that rural security will vanish when the American troops...