Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meat Grinder. The siege of Plei Me began two unsuspected days before the first shot was fired. Up to the triangle-shaped fort 20 miles from the Cambodian border crept sappers from two recently infiltrated North Vietnamese regiments. Working in darkness just 40 yards from the camp's wire-strung perimeter (see aerial photo), the cautious bo doi (infantrymen) cut trenches and L-shaped firing pits, hauled the dirt away in baskets and camouflaged their labors with brush. Though the camp's 400 montagnard defenders were patrolling assiduously up to ten miles away, no one thought to poke...
First hit was a montagnard patrol-it was decimated by a scythe of small-arms fire. Then a 20-man outpost in a clearing below the fort was overrun-the defenders died in their bunkers. At the main fort, U.S. Special Forces Captain Harold M. Moore radioed for help. Soon flare ships were splashing naked light over enemy positions as the Reds' recoilless rifles slammed round after round through the camp's longhouses. The 2,300-odd montagnard women and children living at Plei Me disappeared underground for a week-long hibernation. All, that is, but the older...
During the 1962 race battles on the University of Mississippi campus, an Associated Press cub reporter wrote a dispatch that charged former Major General Edwin A. Walker with encouraging the riots. Segregationist Walker sued the A.P., won a $500,000 verdict from a Fort Worth jury. Last week, in Shreveport, La., Walker won again. He had sued the A.P. and the New Orleans Times-Picayune for $2,225,000; the jury awarded...
...year in Scotland, say friends, also buffed down Bill Meyers' Texas twang. After Edinburgh and a three-month, 12,000-mile tour of Western Europe, Moyers entered Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. However, long before he won his bachelor of divinity degree in 1959, he was beginning to worry that he and the church were mismatched. "I wanted to invest my talents in the broadest possible river," he says, "and I felt that journalism and public affairs were wider and faster flowing than the ministry." When he graduated, despite his conviction that the ministry...
...came the first of the division's 16,000 men, commanded by Major General Harry William Osborn Kinnard. At the same time, an advance party of 1,000 men, 254 tons of equipment and nine "huey" helicopters was quietly whisked to Viet Nam from the division's Fort Benning base in a secret, seven-day airlift...