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...fall, the Vietnamese paratroopers swooped down among the rubber trees in the biggest parachute assault in Viet Nam since 1963. Soon the troops the four nations joined up, and 5,000 men began moving across a ten-mile front at the rate of a mile a day in a nine-day effort aimed at sweeping the V.C. out of an area they have controlled since 1954-and an area that the U.S. may well want to make a fortified preserve...
Attempts by government troops to reopen Route 1 between Bongson and the next province to the north are repulsed with an ease that borders on flippancy. A nine-day push by two battalions of South Vietnamese marines cleared a bare seven miles at the cost of six dead (including one U.S. adviser)-after which the hard-won stretch of roadway was abandoned for lack of artillery support. Frustrated and fatalistic, Saigon finally began contemplating sending a full marine brigade into Bongson-but no one knew if even that many troops could hold...
...various rites, consecration by the Pope of six new bishops from five continents, and an Indian ballet on "The Eucharist and the New Man," with 1,500 dancers and musicians. The congress will also discuss how the church can ease world problems, particularly poverty, hunger and overpopulation. The nine-day congress will cost upwards...
Having acknowledged Rumania's right to pursue its economic future, Moscow hoped in return for help from Gheorghiu-Dej in the polemical struggle with Red China. But last week, when Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer returned from a nine-day Kremlin visit, it seemed that Rumanian cooperation would be limited at best. Khrushchev hopes to convene a huge Red rally-probably some time this fall-to read the Chinese Communists out of the movement...
...this sudden loss of interest in U.S. wheat? For one thing, Moscow was taken aback by the long delays in concluding the deal, by last year's acrimonious debate in the U.S. Senate over credit terms, and by the recent nine-day boycott of wheat shipments by U.S. longshoremen to ensure that 50% of the grain would move in U.S. bottoms. But the chief reason appears to be that Moscow has high hopes for a successful wheat crop this year, simply does not need any more wheat for the time being...