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...fight started depended on whose story you believed. Pakistan claimed that a contingent of Indian troops tried to destroy a forward military outpost on the Pakistani side of the cease-fire line. India maintained that a Pakistani raiding party slipped across the line, ambushed an Indian patrol, and threw the bodies of its victims into a river. In New Delhi, a government official bitterly declared that the Pakistanis probably staged the incident to impress India's other mortal enemy, Red China, whose Premier, Chou Enlai, had been visiting Pakistan. Adding fuel to the flames last week, Chou pledged...
...What do you think I am," demands Keenan Wynn, "some kind of nut?" Fortunately for Wynn, that is exactly what Lieut. Colonel Robert Mitchum thinks. As an American Army officer full of paranoiac fantasies, Wynn has admitted killing a British noncom stationed at his jungle outpost of Bachree because the sergeant was "defiling the white race" by consorting with native women. Mitchum, assigned to defend Wynn in a general court-martial, thinks that motive irrational enough for Wynn to plead insane and save his neck...
...jungle airstrip was hardly big enough, but a Colombian air force DC-4 touched down to unload a most unmilitary cargo: beds, trunks, dogs, chickens and 64 stony-faced peasants who had been strapped in the bucket seats. The peasants were homesteaders arriving at the outpost town of Florencia to start a new life in Colombia's rich but remote southwest. By sunset, the air force plane was back in Bogota, 240 miles away, with a load of hardwood...
...Billy Graham. Jones was formally retired by the Methodist Board of Missions in 1954, after 47 years of work -but retirement meant only that he was freed from all church assignments to set his own unflagging pace. In 1963, for example, he spent six months hopping from one missionary outpost to another in Asia and Latin America, filled 736 preaching engagements, spent his vacation writing his 24th book, a spiritual autobiography. Last week, after eating his way through a nation-crossing round of dinners in honor of his 80th birthday, Jones flew off to the Far East to start another...
Private Yalu. The helicopter work requires steady nerves. One armed Huey escorting a supply chopper at an outpost on the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon attacked a machine-gun nest that had opened fire. Just before one rocket was dropped, it was apparently struck by a sniper's bullet and blew up, shattering the plane's Plexiglas windows; the gunner and the crew chief suffered superficial but bloody face wounds. The dialogue over the intercom betrayed no panic: "Was a rocket blew up, wasn't it?" "It was somethin'." "You O.K., O'Shea?" "Roger...