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...moonlit night last week, three blips flashed on the radar screen of a Dutch Neptune patrol bomber some 60 miles southwest of New Guinea. They turned out to be three Indonesian torpedo boats racing at flank speed (40 knots) toward the Dutch New Guinea coast. Just over two hours later, after alerting two 2,000-ton Dutch frigates in the area, the Neptune dropped flares over the torpedo boats and was greeted with a salvo of antiaircraft fire. The Dutch ships' radar-locked 5-in. guns replied, sinking one of the Indonesian craft and forcing the others to flee...
...fighting strength is equal only to 16 or 17 divisions. Against these, the Soviet Union has 20 Russian and six German divisions poised in East Germany, could throw another 20 or more divisions into action within a week's time. NATO is especially weak on the northern flank of the Seventh Army, where understrength British, Dutch and Belgian units guard the invasion routes across the flat plains...
...center of Munro's forward line is impressive. At the insides playmakers Seamus Malin and Captain Ted Wendell flank the incomparable Crimson center forward Chris Ohiri. Called by Munro "very probably the best center forward around," Ohiri scored twice for Nigeria in the 1960 Olympics. Last year for the Yardlings he racked up 36 goals in nine games and knocked out four goalies with his slashing drives...
...establish good staff work . . . The two best men the Union had were McDowell and Pope, until they got Meade . . . One of the biggest problems was keeping women out of Hooker's camp . . . Kilpatrick sent two brigades of Union cavalry to charge the southern flank, and they were butchered. That cavalry can't charge has been true since Ney tried to win at Waterloo...
...attack the Communists, showily deploying his men to back up his threats. Predictably, the cautious Viet Cong melted deep into their Plain of the Reeds stronghold, exactly where Colonel Cao wanted them. Suddenly shifting his troops, he deployed four infantry battalions on the Viet Cong's south flank. Three airborne battalions, backed up by armored companies moving overland, closed in on the Communists from the west and north. Provincial militia were called up to block off all roads into the plain...