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Today's trainees, virtually reared on the tube, are hooked on the Army's version of Ding-Dong School. Unwittingly, they are participants in one of the few radical advances in teaching the arts of war made since the days when Julius Caesar's centurions were bawling out greenhorns as they learned the goose-stepping passus Romanus. Replacing hoary drill instructors are cool specialists; no longer mechanical spiels learned by rote and replete with undigested, ill-pronounced jargon, lessons are couched in the G.I.s' everyday language; small items of equipment once invisible to troopers...
...shelling of the cities came after a week in which the Communists had undergone little but setbacks. In I Corps' eastern part, allied forces turned back a North Vietnamese attack aimed at overrunning the U.S. Marine supply base of Dong Ha and fought a series of major battles around the city of Hue. In western I Corps, an allied force slashed through the North Vietnamese army's longtime sanctuary and storehouse in the A Shau Valley...
Only eight miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Dong Ha is the eastern anchor of the entire allied defense line facing North Viet Nam. Across the DMZ, in a swift three-day thrust, Hanoi sent its crack 320th Division to audaciously launch its first division-sized attack of the war. The Communist troops took up positions on the Cua Viet River two miles from Dong Ha, ambushed a U.S. Navy supply ship, and waited for the Marines to respond. They did at once, pouring in five companies to engage the North Vietnamese in the village...
...bodies of 201 people were unearthed near the tombs of Emperors Tu Due and Dong Khanh, many buried alive in groups of ten to 15 after being tied together. Among them were two French Benedictine priests...
...grave at Ap Dong Gi, more than 100 victims were found, all buried alive, all standing, with only the hands and arms of some extending vainly above the ground. ¶ As he clung to safety inside a pagoda, a Buddhist monk heard screams and pleas for mercy as shots rang out nightly during the first two weeks of February. Later, the bodies of 67 victims, including Nguyen Ngoc Ky, leader of the Viet Nam Nationalist Party, were found in 13 nearby graves...