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...destroyer. The Q.E.'s crew was augmented for the occasion by at least 50 security men and several Labrador retrievers whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth in the pantry to be served during the eight-day Passover, one joke circulating on board was that, if necessary, the passengers could always float to safety on a raft of unleavened bread...
...eight-day trip to the Canary Islands, with the emphasis on learning Spanish. Customers get a twelve-lesson crash language course before they go, seminars on arrival...
...wrapped up in a day or two. He got the North Vietnamese to agree on language affirming the DMZ as a provisional political division line. But then the talks stalled, apparently because the North Vietnamese were awaiting Politburo consideration of American "clarifications." The two sides broke for an eight-day recess...
...tough. "We had nothing except 250 grams of rice and some salt. If we were lucky we found bamboo shoots and cooked them. There was no milk or sugar." Illness claimed 20% of the unit. Many of the wounded died en route to a field hospital, a seven-or eight-day stretcher trip. Surrounded, out of food and low on ammunition after hard fighting near Khong Sédong, Dai and some of his comrades surrendered...
...would be the final round of talks to nail down a firm agreement on ending the war in Viet Nam. But the round, it soon became clear, would take much more than the "three or four days" that Nixon's negotiator had forecast before the U.S. election. After six days of secret sessions and rumors of difficulties, the two sides declared an eight-day recess in the talks, which were to resume on Dec. 4. Amid assurances by U.S. officials that the peace cavalcade was still "on track," Kissinger returned home...