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Familiar Aim. To meet the threat to Khe Sanh, General William Westmoreland has built up the base's garrison to more than 5,000 Marines in a hasty airlift of troops and equipment that suspended all civilian air traffic throughout Viet Nam. Other allied units shifted nearer the scene of the impending battle to be ready if needed, including a 1st Cavalry (airmobile) brigade helicoptered to Phu Bai, only 45 minutes' flying time from Khe Sanh. For what looked more and more like the first classic conventional battle on a major scale of the Viet Nam war, Westmoreland...
...Sanh in more than 1,500 sorties. Among their targets was the village of Khe Sanh, located some two miles from the Marine camp. After a battalion-sized Communist attack on the village, Khe Sanh Commander Colonel David E. Lownds concluded that it was not defensible and pulled its garrison back into the base. Nearly 1,000 of its villagers were evacuated by C-123s and helicopters to Danang. When the Communists moved large guns into the village, U.S. pilots had no choice but to level it to the ground...
This course is to be patterned on the fourteen week specific discipline described in Omar Garrison's English translation of the Tantric learnings. Prerequisites for participation: adequate mastery of the Hatha Yoga physical positions and diaphragmatic breathing, purchase of the text, and an insouciant attitude toward group nudity...
...President proposed to save another $500 million by reducing the number of American civilians working for the Government overseas and by persuading the nation's NATO allies to buy more U.S. weapons or Government bonds to offset the cost of the 350,000-man U.S. garrison in Europe. The final $500 million would come from stepped-up exports, which already give the U.S. a strong (but lately shrinking) trade surplus of $4.3 billion a year...
...become police chief of Boston. "I didn't want to get involved," he declares, CBS news announces that Boston is missing. The White House says that Southeast Asia will be the 50th, not the 51st state, since Louisiana is being toweed out to sea and sunk. Local commentors blame Garrison's "sewer-side tendencies...