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...Hastings, and it involved nine battalions of U.S. Marines, the largest number ever thrown into any combat in Viet Nam, together with sizable South Vietnamese army and marine units. When it got under way fortnight ago, the total allied strike force numbered 11,000 men. It was a daring, defiant and, by its very nature, often disorderly operation. Into the dense river valleys and high mountains, marines were lifted by helicopter to begin a sweep through a 300-mile crescent of land, destroying Communists as they went. Their paths often led through jungle so thick that it seemed as dark...
...used the occasion to answer the Red Chinese, who claim that huge areas of Russia's eastern provinces, including Khabarovsk, were unjustly seized by the Czars from China in the 19th century and now should be returned to the rightful owner. Not a chance, was Podgorny's defiant reply. He pledged the full support of the Soviet military to defend the area and called on workers and farmers to cooperate with the armed forces "to guard and, if necessary, to fight for the Far Eastern areas of our motherland...
...took the dismissal to court, arguing in part that Alan, as a guitar player in a moneymaking five-piece rhythm and blues group, needed to wear his hair long. Superintendent Smith bent his rules and compromised, contending that "we have a responsibility to try to rehabilitate those who are defiant of regulations...
Never Stop There. Chamberlain is as defiant about his playing abilities as about his size. "I am," he maintains, "the greatest basketball player in the world." Everyone might have agreed with him long ago if only he had stopped right there. Who else, after all, has ever scored 100 points in a single night or averaged 39.5 points per game throughout a seven-year pro career? Wilt never stops there. "I am also the greatest boxer and the greatest miler and the greatest weight lifter and the greatest shotputter and the greatest bowler and the greatest cook and the greatest...
Schizoid Progress. The trial drew much attention. Outside the courthouse last week, some 30 of Sinyavsky-Tertz's students from the Institute of World Literature stationed themselves defiant ly, despite deep snow and 6-below-zero temperature. More important, the trial illustrated the curiously schizoid prog ress of Soviet justice. Never before in a Soviet court had two authors been accused of "political crimes" on the basis of their literary output alone, and the inevitable convictions would set a disastrous legal precedent for esthetic freedom in Russia. On the other hand, a trial conducted with press coverage marked some...