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He is no less specific about the poets who influenced him most: Brecht, Bridges, Cavafy, Frost, Graves, Hardy, David Jones, Lawrence, De la Mare, Marianne Moore, Wilfred Owen, Laura Riding, Edward Thomas, William Carlos Williams. The vastness of the list tends to obscure its two surprising omissions.
The Communists, apparently a mixed force of North Vietnamese sappers and Viet Cong guerrillas, skillfully pinned down one platoon of U.S. Marines and one of the Popular Forces that were on night ambush duty near by. A Regional Forces platoon was trapped inside its compound near the village's...
Pursuing a rumor that "something is up down south," NBC Correspondent Welles Hangen and a camera crew left Phnom-Penh one morning last week, close behind a Jeep and a Mercedes carrying Syvertsen, CBS Reporter-Producer Gerald Miller and their crew. Unlike Viet Nam, where intelligence information is relatively good...
I am happy being here despite my lack of illusions. Illusions kill men; every day an illusion of omnipotence places new men-black, white, and yellow-in new graves. The quest for utopia leads to death. Spare me the illusions of my fellow man.
Richard Nixon shared the week's mood. While the astronauts were still in danger, he immersed himself in their plight, received frequent briefings, and visited the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to get fresh information firsthand. The President discussed with Michael Collins, the former astronaut who is now Assistant...