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...division's battlefield responsibilities, centered over an 880-sq.-mi. area north of Saigon in III Corps, were assumed largely by South Viet Nam's Fifth Division. Much of the Big Red One's equipment, including 27,000 weapons, 4,500 Jeeps and trucks and 500 artillery pieces, was handed over to the South Vietnamese and other U.S. units. As the pull-out date neared, nonessential supplies all but disappeared. The base PX ran out of everything but men's swim trunks. Two "massage" parlors and the Crossroads Bar just outside the main base, foreseeing...
...Transjordan; of pneumonia; in Kelso, Scotland Peake got his desert experience under the famed Lawrence of Arabia in World War I, was then given his own command as inspector general of gendarmerie in Transjordan in 1921. The 1,200-man legion he organized ranged 'over 34,000 sq. mi. of mountainous desert policing some 300,000 people and proved to be the most efficient military force in the entire Arab world...
BLACK Americans pay more than whites for comparable housing, and are four times more likely to live in substandard housing. In black slums, housing density (3,071 units per sq. mi.) is almost double that of middle-class urban areas, and 100 times greater than in suburbs. The density helps spark ghetto fires; in Brooklyn's East New York area, for instance, fire alarms are increasing an average 44% a year. Density also defeats garbage disposal, litters streets with junked cars (1,437 in Detroit's Fifth Precinct in the first five months of 1969). Of all black...
...Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel was appalled. After inspecting 50 sq. mi. of oil slicks off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, he called the spill a "disaster" and started a federal crackdown on the cause-a cluster of twelve offshore oil wells belonging to Chevron Oil Co. A month ago they caught fire. The blaze was snuffed out last week. But as high seas prevented capping the wells, thousands of barrels of brown crude oil started to gush into the water, posing a threat to the Louisiana coast's wildlife refuges and rich oyster beds. Fortunately the slicks...
...Harvard's Dave Pottetti kept the two-mile crown at Cambridge for the fourth consecutive year in 8:56.0, and sophomore Mi Koerner picked up fifth. And when Walter Johnson came in third behind Yale's Kwaku-Ohene Frempong, things were looking better...