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Spikes on Slate. As the dawn fog blew off the crest, Indian jawans (infantrymen) in parkas fanned out along both sides of the pass, their American-supplied automatic weapons at the ready. "There, there on the right the Chinkos have come over the top," said the Indian officer, pointing to the ridge line...
What failed to come, for all but a few of the patrols, was Victor Charlie. One U.S. unit was ambushed at dawn scarcely 200 yards from its campsite chased the V.C. into a hole. The Airborne troops dropped in grenades which yielded four dead. Was that the name of the game? Hardly. For the most part, Ben Cat was like the sergeant "You go out on patrol maybe twenty times or more and nothin', just nothin'. Then, the twenty-first time, zap, zap, zap, you get hit-and Victor Charlie fades into the jungle before you can close...
...just the right shape to send to Russia as a gesture of cultural amity. "Nyet!" gestured back the Kremlin, obscurely protesting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Then the man who's most involved in Viet Nam took over. Lyndon Johnson phoned Merrick at 5 a.m. one foggy dawn in Tokyo, where that same evening Mary brought down the house at the opening of Haro, Dori!. The President said he'd personally see to it that the cast got to Viet Nam and put on a show for U.S. troops. It isn't exactly the South Pacific, chirped...
...national forests. Faced with a forest-eliminating rider to a bill for much-needed funds, Teddy responded with wilderness-bred cunning. In the ten days before signing the funds bill, he simply proclaimed the establishment of 16 million new acres of national forest. He sat up nights until dawn with Pinchot poring over topographical maps, deciding which lands looked wooded and worth preserving...
...radio stations have decided on their own not to play it. Says Los Angeles' Disk Jockey Bob Eubanks: "How do you think the enemy will feel with a tune like that No. 1 in America?" Some rock jockeys play it safe by allotting equal air time to The Dawn of Correction, an "answer song" intoned by the Spokesmen...