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...escalate in fury in Viet Nam. Figures released in Saigon for the week ending March 25 showed a grim new record of 274 American soldiers dead in a single week. The previous high of 240 had stood since the week before Thanksgiving in 1965, when the battle of la Drang Valley took place. The toll was exacted at an immense expenditure of Communist blood, with a new record of 2,774 enemy dead in the week. The figures brought to 8,560 the number of Americans fallen on the battlefields of Viet Nam since 1961, compared with 187,000 Communists...
...years, German-American relations resembled nothing so much as a late 18th century romantic novel, with a fluttery maiden (the Federal Republic), a sometimes cold lover (the U.S.), with dialogue full of Sturm und Drang. Everytime a Senator would complain about the high cost of keeping six U.S. divisions in West Germany, shudders would run up Bonn spines. Every time the cold war would thaw a bit, Bonn would demand reassurance-once again -that permanent division of Germany would not be the price of a Soviet-U.S. rapprochement...
Germany's historical Drang nach Osten- push toward the East -has more often than not involved expansion and conquest at its neighbors' expense. Now West Germany is looking eastward again - but this time with a great difference. The only expansion it seeks is economic; the only conquest it wants is over the understandable fear and hostility that still persist among the Eastern European nations that have suffered so much at Germany's hands. Last week West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger rose in the Bundestag and, speaking to the East as much as to the deputies, said...
...just a year ago, in the Central Highlands valley of la Drang near Cambodia, that infiltrated North Vietnamese regulars for the first time chose to engage a U.S. unit headon. The result was not only the war's bloodiest battle and a stunning defeat for the Communists, who suffered 2,000 dead, but the beginning of a new phase in the war. Since then, despite heavy bombing of the North and a steady buildup of U.S. troops to interdict the southward flow of troops, infiltration has continued unabated, providing the chief source of new Communist manpower to keep...
...Many Gooks. In a search-and-destroy mission in la Drang Valley, within sight of the Cambodian border, an American unit last week ran headlong into a powerful force of just such men, the freshly infiltrated 101C North Vietnamese Regiment. Once again, la Drang became "the Valley of Death"-though the battle was on a far smaller scale. Lured into an ambush when they pursued a small group of Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered...