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Hitting the Junks. The week's most spectacular fight came near Chu Lai, the coastal airbase defended by 2,500 U.S. Marines. There the Viet Cong overran an island headquarters of the South Vietnamese "Junk Fleet" (TIME, May 7), but before they could retreat, the marines stormed ashore to trap them. Many Viet Cong swam to safety, but eight were killed and 45 captured...
...Near Chu Lai, 320 miles northeast of Saigon, four U.S. Marines were killed and four others wounded in a clash with the Viet Cong...
...flame trees. Last week that casual character changed. At the beginning of the nine-mile route, cadres of the Tanzanian People's Defense Force stood tautly at attention, carrying shiny new Chinese automatic rifles. Claques of cheering Africans waved Chinese Communist flags and chanted: "Chou Enlai, Chou En-lai!" Riding along the route in an open Rolls-Royce beside beaming President Julius Nyerere, Red China's Premier must have felt pleased. Then Africa caught up with...
Firm Asian supporters of U.S. Asian policy don't grow in every bamboo grove. So it was not surprising that Lyndon Johnson, just a month after postponing the state visits to the U.S. of Critics Ayub Khan of Pakistan and Lai Bahadur Shastri of India, spared no pains last week in welcoming South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, 48. After all, Park has demonstrated his loyalty by sending 2,000 army engineers and a medical team to help out in South Viet...
India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri had gone to Moscow with high hopes of a major diplomatic achievement. He came home last week with a good deal less...