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...Hilltop Hopping. The diplomatic shadowboxing was matched by a battlefield standoff, as each side sought a tactical advantage in anticipation of a showdown. South Vietnamese troops briefly occupied Tchepone, 25 miles inside Laos and once described as the "throat" of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Then they pulled back from the deserted town to occupy part of the nearby valley floor and some coyly named fire bases in the surrounding hills ("Sophia," "Liz" and "Lollo" for Actresses Loren, Taylor and Lollobrigida). Hilltop hopping by helicopter, other ARVN forces sought to cut off important enemy supply routes, chiefly Route...
...main South Vietnamese force of 10,000 troops and 100 tanks and armored personnel carriers sat immobile barely 15 miles inside Laos on jungle-bordered Route 9. Out on the flanks, where elite airborne and ranger units clung to rugged hilltop fire bases, Communist toops launched a series of furious assaults. First blood was drawn at an outpost about 14 miles inside Laos, where the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) 39th Ranger battalion held out valiantly against a North Vietnamese force of regimental strength for three days before abandoning its positions. By the time the survivors...
South Vietnamese army headquarters acknowledged severe losses to a ranger battalion overrun by North Vietnamese troops on a hilltop six miles inside Laos Sunday. A communique said of the 450 men in the battalion, 100 were killed, 145 wounded and 78 missing...
...century. In fact, its historical significance dates from Roman times. In 56 B.C., Caesar's lieutenant Labienus defeated Camulogene, king of Lutece (ancient Paris), in a battle on that spot. By 1730 it was already called the Etoile (star) because it was a junction of roads on a hilltop. Some regarded it as no more than a "field of mud or dust, rough enough to break the strongest coach," but its fine view of the city inspired innumerable ideas for monuments there...
...parked car blocked the dirt road to the burning hilltop home of Dr. Victor Ohta. Leaving his pickup truck, Soquel, Calif., Assistant Fire Chief Ernest Negro ran to the house to find "the roof was really going." As the local fire trucks screamed up to the main entrance, Negro looked and found that it also was blocked by Dr. Ohta's maroon Rolls-Royce. "I felt awfully funny for a second," Negro recalls. "Somebody seemed determined to prevent anybody from getting near the fire. If I knew then what I know now, I would have gotten out fast...