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...Whisper. The war became unequivocally real for Just when in June 1966 he joined an elite unit of the 101st Airborne Division for a reconnaissance mission. His description of the ordeal contains some of the best combat narrative to come out of Viet Nam. After a daylong fight, in which the 40-man patrol was whittled down by the North Vietnamese, Just found himself trapped in a vulnerable com mand post. It was filling up fast with wounded. Suddenly, the enemy began to lob grenades at them. Suddenly, Just was seized by the realization that there...
...forcing the Viet Cong in the dikes out into the open, where air support and artillery, when it arrived, could plaster them. The Marines paid dearly for their courage, suffering 41 dead and 162 wounded; U.S. losses were 13 killed and 73 wounded. But at the end of the daylong battle, 235 Viet Cong bodies were awash in the paddy waters...
...Committee got $7,500 from one of the dinners "for providing the Vice President [Hubert Humphrey] as speaker." Also, Dodd admitted the accuracy of a newspaper report that quoted a 1963 letter to Lyndon Johnson in which Dodd thanked the then Vice President for agreeing to appear at a daylong round of testimonials "to assist me in my forthcoming campaign." Dodd insisted that he had profited "not one penny from public office," had bought no yachts or Cadillacs with the testimonial funds. But Stennis reminded the Senate that the "morass of money" financed "repairs to a house, alterations...
...Clark's companions included not only New York's liberal Senators, Democrat Robert Kennedy and Republican Jacob Javits, but also California's conservative Republican George Murphy, the Governor's description bordered on the ludicrous. Murphy, for one, found nothing to laugh about during a daylong tour of the Delta's impoverished Negro communities. Said he, visibly moved by what he had seen: "I didn't know we'd be dealing with starving people." Such testimony-and such obvious need-will unquestionably save most poverty programs. Whether it will save the OEO itself...
...presentation will conclude the daylong Republican Issue Forum featuring panels and speeches by college professors and federal, state, and local officials...