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...outside the seedy Hotel Leopold II, no human stirs except Moise Tshombe's tough, sharpshooting paracommandos in their red berets, and the grim, seasoned, Belgian-trained Katanga regulars in their steel helmets and jungle camouflage. Fighting and dying on a daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier is to be seen in the city's core today...
...after the 21-15 victory over Dart-mouth the following week, he "felt that we could go the rest of the way undefeated. When I recalled the records of past teams at Harvard, however, I knew that steady, week-in and week-out performances were rare. Therefore, I didn't set my sights too high; I just kept reminding the team to concentrate on each play and each game as it came, and to take pride in playing good, flaw-less football...
...other Ivy football games tomorrow Columbia plays Princeton in New York, Dart- mouth plays Penn at Franklin Field, Yale plays Brown at New Haven. How the Ivy games predicted to finish? According to the updated Ivy speculations, the top teams are playing the bottom four...
Every night furtive little bands of Communist guerrillas, dressed in black peasant pajamas or faded khakis, splash through the marshes of the Mekong Delta or dart silently along jungle paths of South Viet Nam, pursuing their intent, murderous missions. On the road from Banmethuot last week, one band melted into the shadows as two members of the National Assembly approached in their Jeep. Then, at a signal from their leader, they raised their ancient rifles, clubs and swords and pounced with bloodcurdling cries. Seconds later, the two assemblymen lay dead, and the grim struggle to keep the Communists from winning...
...weeks the Red guerrillas, known as the Viet Cong, had steered clear of large-scale action, choosing instead to dart out in small bands on minor missions of sabotage and murder. U.S. military advisers, rushed to South Viet Nam after the debacle in Laos, used the lull to train government troops in special new mobile tactics. Dozens of U.S. "Special Forces" operatives joined army units to demonstrate night operations, sneak attacks, better use of landing craft in the canals of the Mekong delta. Fortnight ago, reports filtered in that big Communist groups were moving south from Cambodia toward the marshes...