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Farther south in Hau Nghia province, a four-man U.S. patrol was attacked in a paddy by a water buffalo. Results of the action, according to a military spokesman in Saigon: "Four U.S. injured and one individual weapon lost to enemy horns." Added the officer, "About two hours later, a resupply helicopter spotted in the same area a water buffalo with an M-16 rifle hanging on its horns. The door gunners engaged the enemy. Final score: one enemy buffalo killed and one individual weapon recovered...
...Operation Taro Leaf, which fell to the 25th, a search-and-clear maneuver in Hau Nghia province about 20 miles northwest of Saigon...
...barbed wire, a Jeep arrives containing one dead soldier and five live ones, who almost casually share the vehicle with the corpse. On a canal bank in Chuong Thien province, the body of a Communist guerrilla sprawls among the water lilies. On a track through a swamp in Hau Nghia province, a young Vietnamese rifleman happily plucks a duck for supper, white feathers sticking to his mud-spattered battle dress. At an isolated Special Forces post near the Laotian frontier, a supply helicopter arrives carrying, in a sling under its belly, two bewildered cows...
Abteilung 10 was founded on the principle that deformed babies should not spend their lives in institutions. Collecting the children in "Thalidomide Towns," a frequently heard proposal, has also been rejected. "Such a town," says Dr. Hau-berg, "would be like a leper colony. Seclusion of deformed victims could not help appearing to them as expulsion from society. Psychologically it would be extremely dangerous...
...chuckles are frequent in The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and as its redoubtable hero might put it, "by Keplen. high-tone crititzizink is a vaste time. Tsplit infinitifs, I got; wrong tanses, like-vise; dobble nagetifs, also. Hau Kay? Enjoy...