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...prolonged fighting at Xuan Loc was interpreted, in the beginning, as a test of the ARVN's remaining will to fight. "I vow to hold Xuan Loc," declared the 18th Division commander, Brigadier General Le Minh Dao. "I don't care how many divisions the other side sends against me, I will knock them down...
...best known in the scientific world for her experimental demonstration of a nuclear theory--the non-conservation of parity in beta decay--suggested by two Nobel prize-winners, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang...
...Tsung-Dao...
...called Cease-Fire II, Thieu gave a showy display of that belief. In the annual South Vietnamese celebration of power known as Armed Forces Day, jet fighters whistled overhead while tanks, self-propelled artillery and armed amphibious vehicles thundered past the reviewing stands on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Boulevard. Twenty thousand men-the equivalent of two divisions-marched in the parade. Security was tight: the general public was kept well back from the scene. Thieu and his carefully screened guests watched from the reviewing stands. Cost of the display: about $320,000, including $40,000 for fireworks...
...source in Chiangmai, the station will be built and manned by the Americans. It will be a type of aircraft surveillance system, its location affording a radar "view" throughout the region with only two blind sports--one behind a slightly higher mountain in Burma and another behind Chiang Dao Mountain in Thailand...