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...infantrymen and marines spread out over a vast, inhospitable sector south of Tamky where no government troops had set foot since 1938. In one of the biggest drives against the Communist Viet Cong since the guerrilla war broke out in 1959, South Viet Nam's government hoped to flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long operation was to destroy Viet Cong food caches and cut the Reds' main supply line, the 400-mile Ho Chi Minh trail to North Viet Nam through neutral Laos...
...grown. The peasants there have resisted the hamlet program-and have often been forcibly resettled in fortified villages-because they resent having to walk miles to their paddies. In a successful attack on two hamlets last month, some 2,000 villagers simply vanished. The Reds are particularly hard to flush out of the delta because they often are impossible to distinguish from peaceful peasants. On the other hand, U.S. Special Service troops-"Sneaky Petes"-have made dramatic progress in the north by winning over and training the dark-skinned, aboriginal montagnards. Though they have for centuries been victimized...
...year, fought some desultory wars with his neighbors in Sharja and Dubai, and lived quietly in his mud-walled palace on an offshore island. He installed an air conditioner in his bedroom but seldom used it because he disliked the noise. He also put in a flush toilet and a pump to supply it with water; sewage disposal was simply a pipe jutting out from the palace wall. Nearly every day, the sheik sat cross-legged in his throne room holding a majlis, at which he listened to complaints of citizens, while Bedouin chiefs grouped around him, some holding...
...full flush of destalinization, wrote Evgeny Evtushenko. 29. the Russian poet whose honest rage at the cant and callousness of Soviet society has made him the idol of his generation. For a while, in fact, it seemed as if Evtushenko (TIME cover. April 13. 1962) had become a semiofficial Angry Young Marxist, whose occasional excesses were tolerated by the regime because they made it appear as if Khrushchev's Communism could actually accept criticism. If so, Evtushenko pushed his luck...
...Cassius! Go get him, Doug!" the fans chanted. "Get that loudmouth!" And in the first round, Doug almost did. Cassius leaned back, and a looping right caught him flush on the side of the jaw. Clay's knees buckled, his eyes glazed, and he grabbed the ring rope for support. Desperately, Clay shot jabs at Jones's forehead-light, harmless punches designed only to keep Jones at arm's length, to survive the round. The second was even, and in the third, his head clear now, Cassius took command. He raked Jones with left hooks...