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...more than just the bricks and mortar that make up the buildings. It is building these good relationships with people. Every year, we can reach deeper into the Indian view of the world...
Vogt cites this working atmosphere in his definition of the Harvard field station on the outskirts of San Cristobal: "It's more than just the bricks and mortar that make up the buildings. It is building these good relationships with people....Every year, we can reach deeper into the Indian view of the world...
Those vaunted "iron fists" were in action as the week ended, and blood once again stained the snows of Chen Pao Island, or Damansky, as the Russians call it. According to Moscow, Chinese troops moved onto the island by night, and next morning another large detachment attacked, supported by mortar and artillery fire. "There were killed and wounded as a result," the Russians reported, though no specific casualty figures were given. The Chinese, in their turn, accused Soviet troops of provoking the battle. Chinese frontier guards, a Peking radio broadcast said, were "compelled to shoot back in self-defense...
...rocket and mortar fire continued to pound up and down South Viet Nam and the Communists' post-Tet offensive of 1969 ended its third week, it bore some superficial resemblances to its predecessor at Tet last year. There was scarcely a major city or military center in the country that had not suffered some enemy fire. The numbers of provincial capitals that came under attack this year and last were identical: 29. "If you plotted the action by throwing up darts at a board," said one U.S. officer, "they'd look about the same." Outwardly the most distressing...
Just south of the Demilitarized Zone, assault troops hit a U.S. Marine fire base under cover of an intense mortar barrage. The attackers were led by sappers carrying explosives on their backs, the detonator cords wrapped around their chests. In vicious hand-to-hand fighting, in which more than two-thirds of the defenders became casualties, one Marine killed five attackers with his knife; another bludgeoned a Communist infantryman to death with a grenade. Some of the enemy sappers blew themselves up with the explosives they were carrying...