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...excursion moves on to Syria, where just a few months ago the United States was still being reviled as an agent of Israel and Zionism. Last week flagmakers in Damascus worked overtime to turn out enough Stars and Stripes to garland the streets and state functions. Thousands of paratroopers, infantrymen, police and security agents will line the 28-mile route from the Damascus International Airport to the Government Guest Palace, where the Nixons will stay...
...terrible days last week, the capital of Chile turned into a bloody battleground. Planes roared in almost at rooftop level, firing rockets and sowing bombs. Tanks rumbled through the streets, tearing holes in walls with shells from their cannon. Infantrymen popped up in doorways, and the sound of their fire reverberated through the city. The principal target, the Presidential Palace, disappeared behind a veil of smoke and flames. Inside, Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, 65, died in his office as a military junta took over his country...
...noon, a pair of Hawker Hunters attacked the palace with bombs, rockets and tear gas. An hour and a half later, infantrymen entered La Moneda by a side door; their officers gave Allende ten minutes to surrender. "All of you go down without weapons and with hands up," the President told the handful of aides who had stayed with him. "Go and surrender to the army. I will be the last to leave." Then, according to Mejido, Allende shot himself...
...most part, however, the 20 infantrymen who hold the firebase simply sit, wait, and gaze up the valley, polishing their weapons and drinking cans of Budweiser beer from the seemingly inexhaustible stock the G.I.s left behind...
...planes scar the countryside with napalm and fragmentation bombs. Warships and artillery bombard areas suspected of harboring guerrillas. Infantrymen burn huts. As villages and crops are destroyed, hundreds of thousands of citizens are left homeless and hungry. Meanwhile, the guerrillas grow stronger and bolder. Hit-and-run harassment has escalated to well-organized offensives. Last week the army lost 28 men as it broke a week-long siege of a town housing two beleaguered companies of constabulary troops...