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...reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and held. Later, near Tabu-dong, Johnson himself led a counterattack to regain a key sector, earning the nation's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for "extraordinary heroism in action." As Lieut. Colonel George Allen of Fairfax, Va., then one of his platoon leaders, recalls the battle: "The world was coming apart. Our company commander had been killed. There was heavy firing 100 yards away. Colonel Johnson said we could handle it. He parceled out firepower and called...
...minor characters (a captain in the Venetian police) Nick Smith steals a scene with his impersonation of a Brooklyn cop. One shortcoming does stand out amidst the otherwise excellent caricatures: occasionally the young soldier Leone understates the egocentric bravado which should undercut any respect we might have for his heroism...
...into Cambodia. The American 1st Air Cavalry, which took some 240 dead and 470 wounded in the largest U.S. weekly casualty list since the Korean War, remained in charge of the field. With the guns silent, the men themselves grew talkative, recalling the vivid episodes of humor, horror and heroism that the weeks of wild fighting had etched in their minds...
Died. Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, 89, Bavarian-born widow of King Albert, mother of ex-King Leopold III and grandmother of reigning King Baudouin, long revered for the heroism and charity she displayed in both World Wars and esteemed as one of Europe's leading art patrons, but whose unfortunate espousal of left-wing causes in the last ten years brought embarrassment to the government and ultimately exasperated a long-tolerant public, earning her the derisive label "Red Queen"; of a heart attack; in Stuyvenberg Palace, near Brussels...
...Stateside Americans have been altogether aware of the scope and savagery of the war in Viet Nam, or even perceived how deep in the thick of things their nation is there. Despite all the headlines, all the vignettes of heroism and horror, all the demonstrations and counterdemonstrations in the U.S. itself, the average American, cushioned by prosperity and a span of 8,500 miles, has found it hard to realize that the struggle in Southeast Asia is indeed a war. But it is-and that fact was driven home last week as never before when a fresh, division-strength Communist...