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...troops away from the U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh, where Giap has assembled some 40,000 men for what could be the largest single battle of the entire war. Not all of Westmoreland's and Johnson's subordinates agree. The dissenters suspect Giap of intending just the opposite???of having created the threat to Khe Sanh as a diversion designed to draw U.S. forces away from cities and towns and thus give him a foothold in the populated areas that has consistently been denied...
...Into the stodgiest period of English history minced "Dizzy," "in a coat of black velvet, poppy-colored trousers broidered with gold, a scarlet waistcoat, sparkling rings worn on top of white kid gloves." In decent black, Gladstone strode opposite???half-concealing his metaphysical doubts behind a truly British sense of duty. "At Oxford the young men drank less in 1840 because Gladstone had been...
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