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...accords, but it is actually overrun by an antipasto of Asian troops. U.S.-supported mercenaries from Thailand and opium-growing Meo tribesmen from the northern hills help out the Royal Laotian Army. China has something like 20,000 troops in the country; they build roads while keeping a jealous eye on the North Vietnamese. Since 1952 Hanoi has had troops in Laos, which it used to describe as "deserters" and "volunteers." Now that it has the biggest single army in the country-65,000 troops-it does not acknowledge them...
Tran Van Dai, 18, lost an eye during his few brief months of fighting in Laos. A rice farmer's son, he was drafted out of a small North Vietnamese hamlet about two years ago, even though he was so frail that he was allowed to carry only 80 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, rather than the usual 200. After hurried training-eight weeks instead of the usual six months-he was marched south and told that he was going to fight in a "great war." Last April his unit crossed into Laos on Route...
Mona Lisa, Apple of my Eye, Jane...
...warm wet eye...
...Dynasty. In fact, as his players and many of his coaching peers agree, Shula has perhaps the soundest best-organized technical mind in pro football today. Studying films hour after eye-reddening hour, harping with drill-sergeant insistence on conditioning and the execution of fundamentals, Shula began to build a new dynasty. His 1970 team, green in more than the color of its jerseys (average age: 25) compiled a 10-4 record, gained the A.F.C. play-offs and won Shula his third Coach of the Year award. Last year the Dolphins won ten regular-season games, as well...