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...story about the rugged little frontier farmer who tilled his fields from dawn to dusk and helped make America safe for democracy holds a fond place in most of our hearts. As America grew bigger and richer, the story continues, so did the farms, and the farmers. It is today's conventional wisdom that farmers wear gray flannel overalls and take care of their farms with three or four gleaming machines...
...Fatah, and Israeli agents fanned out through Arab settlements in the occupied territories picking up Fatah suspects. They arrested some 200, most of them around diehard centers of Arab resistance, such as the town of Nablus on the Jordan's West Bank. In Nablus, Israeli police imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in retaliation for a strike of shops and bus service...
...fled south toward the rising foothills of the Central Highlands, the Marines, now six companies strong, took off in pursuit. But the North Vietnamese were retreating to an area where at least a full regiment of more than 1,000 men was already entrenched in dugouts and caves. At dusk, the Communists struck back at the outnumbered Marines. Bayonet-wielding North Vietnamese soldiers charged the U.S. positions; some got within 15 feet of Marine machine guns before they were cut down. Marines snatched grenades from their dead buddies and hurled them without taking time to aim. By midnight, the attack...
Some 5,000 thieves and arsonists were ravaging the West Side. Williams Drug Store was a charred shell by dusk. More than one grocery collapsed as though made of Lincoln Logs. A paint shop erupted and took the next-door apartment house with it. In many skeletal structures the sole sign of life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain...
...Moves. Many U.S. helicopter units in Viet Nam are already equipped with the scope, and many of them fly four to seven missions a week. To avoid hitting innocent civilians, most missions are carried out in "free-fire zones" designated by the Vietnamese province chief and kept under strict dusk-to-dawn curfew. The U.S. forces also drop leaflets warning the people that anything moving outside of their village after dark will be fired upon...