Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flew to Wisconsin to prepare for the nation's second primary on April 2, Nixon seemed to have shucked many of his old liabilities-most notably his humorlessness and his guarded approach to the press. Self-confident and almost too self-effacing, Nixon wowed packed houses from Green Bay and Appleton to Stevens Point and Fond...
...Lang Vei, a hilltop U.S. Special Forces camp four miles southwest of Khe Sanh on Route 9. Basically a post for interdicting Communist movement into the South and for overseeing allied patrols into nearby Laos, Lang Vei was defended by some 400 South Vietnamese and Montagnard irregulars and 24 Green Berets, operating out of a deeply dug bunker made of three feet of rein forced concrete and two-inch steel plate, complete with its own ventilation system. As much as any place can be in Viet Nam, it seemed an ideal outpost, immune to artillery attack and so situated that...
...powerful guns, the first Communist use of tanks in the entire war. The tanks deployed in classic fashion east and west of the outpost, then rolled right through the camp's wire and up onto the bunker roofs, followed by North Vietnamese infantrymen. "We heard them," says a Green Beret, "but we never thought they were tanks. We thought they were our generator acting up." Soon the Communists started shoveling satchel charges, grenades, napalm and tear gas down the air vents in an effort to dis lodge the defenders...
...open to face the tanks; they knocked out several of them with bazookas and recoilless rifles. But the defenders were badly outnumbered and scrambled back inside to call down air and artillery strikes directly on top of their own bunkers, built to withstand 250-lb. bombs. Finally, the Green Berets called for mock bombing feints by U.S. planes; while the NVA were ducking, they broke and ran, escaping from the camp. Some were picked up by helicopters and others worked their way back to Khe Sanh on foot, but Lang Vei had fallen, and with it ten of the Green...
Wearing the Green. The week did produce one real shock when Italy's 27-year-old Franco Nones became the first person other than a Scandinavian or Russian ever to win an Olympic cross-country ski race. A wiry customs agent from Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special...