Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named Victor. Unlike most, he recognized the responsibilities of parenthood. Dr. Georges Salan says proudly: "Raoul brought his illegitimate son home with him instead of abandoning him to his mother." Lieut. Victor Salan, now 26, and like his father a graduate of St.-Cyr, is studying nuclear-war tactics at St.-Maixent military school...
With Varela Gomes badly wounded, his followers seemed at a loss. They exchanged brief fire with soldiers and security police who moved on the barracks, and then fled. The Under Secretary for the Army, Lieut. Colonel da Fonseca. raced down from Lisbon to take charge, but as he approached the barracks on foot he was shot dead, probably by one of his own trigger-happy men. Two insurgents were killed at Beja and 13 captured, including the badly wounded Varela Gomes. Five more were seized at a fishing port, where they had hoped to escape...
...raid, just before Christmas, was exactly what U.S. Lieut. General Lionel McGarr wanted. For months, McGarr and his Military Assistance Advisory Group have been drawing up a Counter-Insurgency Plan with staff officers of the South Viet Nam army. The plan aims at getting the South Vietnamese out of their defensive posture and into a mobile and determined pursuit that will carry the war to the heart of the Reds' jungle strongholds. Due Hoa represented the plan's first trial...
...toughest and most dedicated Communists are those trained in North Viet Nam. Some were ordered into neighboring Laos, to fight with the Pathet Lao against the Royal government (see following story). Others, like captured Lieut. Duong, came into South Viet Nam by sea in junks posing as fishermen but carrying arms and medical supplies to Viet Cong bands. Many have died rather than surrender, but brief glances into their lives remain in the scribbled pages of their diaries and journals. These diaries are not only added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them...
...likable. For 16 years Harvey had been in the Air Force. He flew in North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes in Virginia's James River to test evacuation procedures. In Korea, Lieut. Colonel Harvey flew 114 missions. During his long service, his decorations included an Air Medal with eight oakleaf clusters and a D.F.C. with cluster. But last week Julian Harvey was dead by his own hand. And his suicide opened the books on a strange, star-crossed life...