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...Already combatting Communist terrorism on its remote northeastern frontier, Thailand announced that it would soon become the sixth fighting ally of the U.S. in Viet Nam.* It has already begun to gather the 1,000-man combat battalion of Royal Thai army volunteers who will enter the Viet Nam fray sometime within the next six months. At the same time, Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman admitted that Thailand has been "allowing U.S. troops to utilize our military installations and facilities...
...protesting the penalty. At game's end, the president of the Iran Football Federation approached the Thai referee to continue the argument, and the referee smacked him in the snoot. At that point, as they say in the Pentagon, the battle escalated. Players and spectators leaped into the fray, and helmeted riot police waded in with clubs. The Iranians lost the fight as well as the game...
...Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants...
...Nams, 15,000 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops continued Operation Prairie, aimed at denying transit to Hanoi's legions headed south. In Prairie's nine weeks of hillto-hill combat, the Allies had poured 1,000,000 artillery shells and 2,200 air strikes into the fray, killing 992 Red infantrymen. South of Danang the Marines were searching out Viet Cong in Operation Macon, and in the rice-rich Delta, two search-and-destroy missions -Sioux City and Sunset Beach-were aimed at denying the enemy his breadbasket. South of Tuy Hoa on the coast, the 101st...
...forget the Harvard-Columbia fray. For sentimental reasons at best, Harvard should get the edge...