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...coastal hamlet to warn U.S. and Vietnamese co-workers that Viet Cong had attacked the city and were believed still to be lurking in the area. On the way back, the Jeep was ambushed. Taking cover in a cornfield, Owen and his companions were bombarded by a Viet Cong mortar barrage. One round exploded near Owen. Stunned, he staggered to his feet and was fatally shot through the heart. Dee Owen would have been 22 next February...
...seat Senate entered the final week, Communist terrorists began campaigning with a vengeance to frighten voters away from the polls. In one day, in a coordinated series of attacks the length of the narrow nation, guerrillas killed or wounded nearly 400 Vietnamese. The old imperial capital of Hue was mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi An, 15 miles south of Danang, leaving 60 Vietnamese casualties be hind; south of Saigon a village housing Viet Cong defectors was assaulted. The major attack was a 10-minute rocket and mortar assault against Can Tho, largest...
...scientific diagnostician has been born. Not just a city planner, not just an educator, not just a politician, he is some of each-and something more. The "urbanologist" aspires to be a student of the entire city, an ecumenist of the metropolis, whose concerns go beyond brick and mortar to budgets and laws, souls and sensibilities. Just as the word urbanology is a cross between Latin and Greek, the science-or is it an art?-is a melange of many disciplines...
...Bricks & Mortar. One of two Ruthenian bishops in the U.S., Elko for twelve years has been the spiritual leader of 220,000 souls in 120 scattered parishes from Pittsburgh to Alaska. The first American-born priest ever to become a Ruthenian prelate, Elko was in many respects a typical U.S. bishop: a blunt, tough, brick-and-mortar administrator who built 93 new churches and schools for his diocese. Nonetheless, his no-nonsense ways managed to offend both liberals and conservatives in his far-flung...
...Viet Cong tried to overrun the 11th Armored Cavalry the same way-with far different results. Bivouacked in an open field 53 miles east of Saigon, the Americans were hit just before midnight by Viet Cong mortar and recoil-less-rifle fire. "The V.C. were loaded for bear," said U.S. Army Major David Doyle. "They were well outfitted and their equipment was new." But in a sharp, short fight, the cavalry lost only nine men, the enemy...