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...First Mistake. For the U.S., one of the bloodiest battles of the war be gan as a platoon of paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne cautiously threaded their way through an apparently deserted V.C. camp only 30 miles north east of Saigon. It contained freshly dug fortifications, bamboo picnic tables, even a bathing hole. The trooper on "point," leading the way, spotted a pair of black pajamas drying on a tree, went over to pull them down. Precisely at the moment he touched them, four concealed Communist machine guns opened fire...
...islands had always governed themselves, and the British had never even sent an administrator to their capital at Male. Britain's only responsibilities, in fact, were the conduct of Maldivian foreign affairs (nonexistent) and defense (unnecessary). Its only interest was the R.A.F. runway on the island of Gan, which it will retain as a steppingstone to Southeast Asia...
...growing faster abroad than at home. Last week Manhattan's First National City Bank -which already has outposts from Santo Domingo to Dubai, the chief port of the Arabian Trucial States - opened an other in the Chowringhi section of Calcutta, and this week Manhattan's Mor gan Guaranty Trust Co. will open a branch in Antwerp. In all, the number of foreign branches operated by U.S. banks has risen in the past five years from 124 to 215, and the total grows almost every week...
...Bible and raise the other; he corrected that, and continued the recitation slowly and so softly that he could scarcely be heard when he concluded, "So help me God." Finishing, he looked at Lady Bird; she squeezed his arm. The President turned to the crowd and be gan: "My fellow countrymen...
...source of pain was all too familiar: a 297-page report by a parliamentary committee investigating overseas military spending. Sweeping the bases, the committee found Benghazi about to be closed, Hong Kong indefensible, Gibraltar all but useless, Singapore disorganized, Malaysia too powerful, and the new Indian Ocean airbase at Gan dismayingly expensive ("The contract estimate has been revised on five occasions"). At all these bases, charged the committee, the armed forces have squandered the taxpayers' money on illusory projects. At Hong Kong, the army "surrendered" valuable land to the local government, which not long ago sold an acre...