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...Damdoi, which lie 15 miles apart on the southernmost tip of Viet Nam. To confuse government reinforcements and to hamper their speedy arrival, the Viet Cong first feinted at three neighboring outposts, sowed mines on a major road over which government troops had to travel, and poured harassing mortar fire on a U.S. helicopter airstrip in the area...
Shortly after midnight, the Reds hit Cai Nuoc directly. Pouring mortar shells and recoilless rifle fire in the perimeter system of defensive bunkers, the Viet Cong breached the front gate of the city's major outpost, ran from bunker to bunker lobbing in grenades and shooting the defenders in the back. The fight lasted for only 35 minutes, but the Reds occupied the town for the next 17 hours. It was a bloodbath. When reinforcements finally appeared, they found a heap of 50 mutilated bodies, including women and children, which the Reds had set afire...
...blunt message to his staff. There was, he said, "nothing to celebrate." Last month, when it came time for a second anniversary, Puerto Rico's Moscoso found signs of progress in the ten-year program for social reform and economic development in Latin America. As "brick and mortar" evidence, he noted that U.S. Alliance funds, amounting to $1.5 billion in the past two years, have helped build 140,000 homes, 8,000 classrooms, 1,500 water systems and 900 hospitals and clinics; eleven nations have made modest starts on tax reform, twelve others on land reform. But Moscoso still...
...Passed, by a 287-to-113 House vote, a $1.2 billion, fiveyear, bricks-and-mortar higher education bill to help the nation's 700 public and 1,300 private and church-connected colleges and universities build badly needed classrooms, libraries and laboratories. Different versions of the same measure were approved last year on the floors of both the Senate and the House, but got involved in a bitter House-Senate conference battle. While the conference committee changes were being considered in the House, the powerful National Education Association wired every Congressman, warning that the measure imperiled "America...
...Communist Viet Cong was obviously trying to capitalize on the Buddhist crisis. Stepping up their attacks, the Red guerrillas wounded 14 U.S. advisers in a mortar barrage on a U.S. compound in Can Tho and killed three Americans when the Reds shot up a U.S. medical convoy north of Saigon. A fourth adviser was killed later in the week when jittery sentries began shooting at each other in the dark. The dead brought to 89 the number of U.S. troops killed in the war in South Viet...