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...government. There is also a sharp increase in willingness to inform on the Viet Cong-and to cooperate with the anti-Communist forces. A small but significant example of this occurred in Ben Cat last week when a V.C. terrorist stepped out of a crowd to hurl a grenade at U.S. troops passing on the street near by. Before he could throw it, a young Vietnamese in the crowd felled him with a flying tackle; time was when no civilian would have dared to raise a hand against the Reds...
...strikeouts gave him a total of 332 for the season-just 16 shy of Bob Feller's alltime record. More important, he had become the eighth man in modern baseball history to pitch a perfect game, 27 men up, 27 men down-and the first ever to hurl four no-hitters in his career...
...employed just about every weapon in the book, from bowie knives to bombs that hurl darts, in an attempt to wipe out the Viet Cong guerrillas. But few expected to see the weapon that was called in last week. It was the B-52 Stratofortress, that eight-jet colossus of the Strategic Air Command whose normal function is toting H-bombs round the world in constant cold war vigilance against attack on the U.S. On this mission, the Stratoforts-30 of them-carried conventional bombs and the seeds of a quite unconventional controversy. For their target was one against which...
...Chinese and Cubans reacted with howls about imperialist aggression. In a shrill May Day speech, Castro called the U.S. landing "one of the most criminal and humiliating actions of this century." The comment from the rest of Latin America was surprisingly mild. Few of the expected mobs materialized to hurl rocks at U.S. embassies. Chile's President Eduardo Frei and Venezuela's Raúl Leoni issued public statements deploring the U.S. landings. But privately, many Latin American statesmen admitted the necessity for quick U.S. action. Some even went on record about it. Mexico's Foreign Ministry...
...they can again set out to topple the Saigon government. Meanwhile, there was still the chance that Viet Cong regiments -backed by North Vietnamese army units-might mount a concerted attack on the airbase at Danang, hoping to recoup the prestige lost in recent defeats and even perhaps to "hurl the Americans into...