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Special Forces Captain Roger H.C. Donlon, a tall, sandy-haired soldier who led a heroic defense against Viet Cong attackers in 1963, was the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Viet Nam. Donlon himself was wounded four times in the firefight, but he refused medical aid until his men were treated. Donlon, 38, today is a major serving in Thailand...
...Harvard Cooperative Society and one of the company's former directors squared off for a legal firefight yesterday over Coop election procedures...
...Arabs guarding the helicopter crews were hit, and in the firefight that followed one of the pilots was wounded. A third guerrilla on the tarmac was killed. But the Arab leader, whom the police wanted to hit most of all, dived under a helicopter and fired back. His shots somehow knocked out the lights as well as the radio in the control tower. Ricocheting bullets also killed a Munich police sergeant who had crouched beside the control tower...
Black September's first leader was Ali Abu Iyad (real name Mohammed Mustafa Shyein), a deputy of Al Fatah Boss Yasser Arafat. Iyad was wounded, captured and executed in July 1971 after a firefight between guerrillas and Hussein's army. But probably the organization's best-known leader was Fuad Shemali, a Lebanese Christian who masterminded some of the group's earlier operations before he died of cancer last month. Shemali left posthumous instructions to the terrorists to concentrate on kidnaping Israelis held in high esteem by Israelis themselves. He mentioned scholars, scientists and athletes...
Only last spring it looked as if the script for Campaign 1972 would include as a subplot a nonstop firefight between the Administration and much of the press. If George McGovern won the Democratic nomination, it seemed then, he would certainly enjoy favorable treatment at the hands of many columnists and reporters. So far, however, that has not happened; disenchantment with McGovern has drawn tough criticism even from sources that are ostensibly sympathetic to his candidacy. Though attacks on Richard Nixon have been harsher, the White House hardly needs to seek fresh quarrels with the media. The President not only...