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"A man is the foreleg of the elephant and the woman the hind leg," according to an old Thai saying. If that is so, the hind legs are doing more than their share of the walking in present-day Thailand. In increasing numbers, the women of Thailand are abandoning the...
Just a Boy. One of the wounded that Torres didn't find was Pfc Toby Braveboy, 24, a light-haired part-Cherokee rifleman from-of all places-Coward, S.C. Hit by three bullets, Braveboy didn't dare call for a medic, for the North Vietnamese were prowling close...
When the siege of Plei Me was lifted five weeks ago, the mauled Communist attackers faded westward into the uninhabited valleys of elephant grass and scrub-covered hills that for a long time have been their sanctuary. But this time a sanctuary it was not to be. The U.S. undertook...
But when the smoke cleared above the blasted elephant grass, Hanoi hardly had reason to gloat. Some 350 of their crack troops, many of whom had come over the border into South Viet Nam within the last month, lay dead in la Drang valley, bringing to well over 1,000...
Judging by the lessons of history, Harold Wilson's effort "to get the rogue elephant back under control"-as the Times of London last week described British sanctions against Rhodesia-will not be easy. Ever since the League of Nations in 1935 attempted the first international sanction against Italy...