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...James, who wrote the main narrative, was able to draw on his own knowledge from a previous trip to South Viet Nam. On-the-scene reportage came from James Willwerth, who hitched a plane ride from Saigon to I Corps, where he viewed the situation at Khe Sanh and Lang Vei, a point about three miles from the Laotian border. By now the final elements were falling into place as cables arrived from Stanley Cloud, who had flown from Bangkok to Vientiane for the story from inside Laos. "Vientiane is a kind of convention center for those who wage...
...siege in 1968, was a moonscape of shell craters flecked by twisted steel runway sheets and discarded shell casings. A few miles to the south, the Rockpile was overrun by weeds. On a bluff overlooking the Laotian border, the hulks of battered Soviet tanks still lay rusting at the Lang Vei Special Forces camp, where ten Americans and 225 South Vietnamese died in a single night of hand-to-hand combat...
...long columns of tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers ground into the rugged western reaches of Quang Tri province, raising towering columns of dust. Overhead, gunships darted around in search of enemy troops. Giant Chinook helicopters flapped into long-abandoned bases, depositing men and massive earth-moving machines. At Lang Vei, a halftrack pulled up loaded with expectant-looking G.I.s. One soldier had a single word painted on his helmet: "Laos...
...followed, tossing out such juvenile insults as: "You can always tell a Russian by the yellow streak down his back." Some Russians tried a mild response. One told his tormentor: "This is not the way to protest." As he assailed a diplomat near the Soviet mission, J.D.L. Member Steve Lang, 19, got a lecture in return: "The Soviet Union does not persecute Jews. I fought against the fascists before you were born." When Lang and a partner trailed three Russians into a parking lot, one of them reached into a car trunk, pulled out a six-inch knife and brandished...
Since the state was unwilling to free him outright, his attorney preferred the risks of trial to the near certainty of confinement for life. The court agreed and ruled that Lang should be tried. Said Bernard Deeny, a perplexed assistant state's attorney: "The court has ordered us to give him a trial, but I don't see how we can." Nonetheless, the trial is scheduled to begin next week...