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...onslaught began. Residents of Rithysen (pop. 66,000), a Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base near the country's border with Thailand, were awakened by the sound of artillery and mortar shells exploding in and around their sprawling bamboo village. By 7 a.m. an estimated 1,000 Vietnamese infantrymen, led by armored vehicles, had fought their way into Rithysen (also known as Nong Samet), about 140 miles east of Bangkok. Their aim: to destroy the camp and other centers of opposition to the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government of Heng Samrin, and to drive the refugees into Thailand. An estimated...
...their part, the Sandinistas are intensely concerned about U.S. activity in the area. Up to 1,000 U.S. military personnel are involved in seven separate regional exercises. The U.S. contingents include about 120 Army engineers who are building roads near Honduras' Palmerola Air Force Base, a company of infantrymen patrolling near the same site, and a dozen servicemen who assisted at a Salvadoran-Honduran naval exercise that ended last week. Most of the recent arrivals are early harbingers of a major U.S. joint exercise with Honduras known as Big Pine III, which will take place sometime after the first...
...Good War" is a barrage of contrasts and images: descriptions of Los Angeles chicanos lounging on street corners in zoot suits; burn victims without skin; deferred civilians earning $200 a week in safety; infantrymen dying for $40 a month; a sign on Buchenwald's gate that identifies the death camp as zoological gardens; Operation Paper Clip, the innocuous code name for expediting U.S. citizenship for useful ex-Nazis. We are told that millions of dollars in trucks and equipment were dumped into the sea after victory, and we hear a general say that the $811 it cost to process...
...road toward the advancing troops, carrying a shovel. "It's a wonder we didn't shoot him," says Fuller. "We were told to shoot at anything that moved on that road." Brobant, who had been forced into virtual slave labor by the Germans, excitedly indicated to the American infantrymen that he had just killed three of his captors with his shovel. Now 82, Brobant at first did not recognize the U.S. soldier who had teased him about his funny hat. Fuller drew a sketch of the white cap that Brobant had worn then, and the old Frenchman's eyes...
...Yunnan and Guangxi." The Chinese claim Vietnamese infantry units have crossed the border in 90 places to lay land mines and plunder local settlements. Viet Nam recently showed off two Chinese prisoners to foreign journalists in Hanoi, while China's state-run television ran film clips of Chinese infantrymen near the border and of hospitalized Chinese casualties...