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Presidential Pressure. The battle was an eight-week engagement involving the Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due Lap in the Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to repulse enemy attacks, fended off three seasoned North Vietnamese regiments, numbering about 5,000 men. Last week, as the Communists withdrew to base camps farther north in Cambodia...
...Henderson put the blaster in his lap and faced the door, listening for the ?oo?steps of Ygstifhe and his martian bully boys. How naive they had been, the politicians of the twenty-first century, how naive and how greedy! After the defeat of the Asian Hegemony in the Fourth World War. Tsun Chi and his cunning successors in Peking had been only too eager to use the help of their new maitian allies to recover their shattered power. And it had been so easy: just follow the suggestions of the tactful martian advisers and accept a few controls from...
...Skip Hare, the Crimson swept the long jump and hurdler Johnson set a new bubble record of 7.5 seconds in the 60 highs. In the 1000. Army took charge early, holding the first three places. At the half-mile mark. Colburn jumped into the lead and, with one lap remaining, Shaw began a phenomenal kick that vaulted him from fifth to first place with a time...
...potato syndrome which seemed to affect Congress on the Vietnam issue. Nixon was someone who had to carry the hot potato, the Congressmen knew that and they appreciated the existence of someone who could be presented with the hot item whenever it was put into their lap...
...airpower and artillery support could be withdrawn for a long time thereafter. U.S. military men also pointed out that the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) has not yet proved itself in heavy combat. Last week, when North Vietnamese regulars inflicted heavy losses on ARVN units in a battle near Due Lap, a fortified strongpoint 131 miles northeast of Saigon, U.S. authorities hustled American correspondents, including TIME's Burton Pines, away from the scene. Conceded one American commander: "They are fighting hard, but not with exceptional skill...