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...Communists struck an even more serious blow at an isolated ARVN artillery base named Tun Tavern, on a mountain ridge 21 miles south of the demilitarized zone. North Vietnamese regulars, who apparently entered through Laos, overran the outpost, killing 50 and wounding 119. The South Vietnamese, with the help of U.S. advisers, recaptured the base, but the attack underscored the blunt admission of a U.S. officer: "I Corps and II Corps are our problem areas now." In I Corps, the number of small-unit contacts in recent weeks has averaged more than the total in all the other military regions...
...just before Kwik Snak closed, I ate my final meal and thought happy thoughts. I still had enough left for another bathroom stop and a Record American An obvious strategy now was to stay near the center of the line; trips to outpost stations are not advisable late at night...
Chezzie Jordan, 16, and Michael Clepper, 18, Farragut Outpost...
Ball on a Toothpick. Chezzie and Michael were nearly dropouts from Farragut High School. But then they enrolled at Farragut Outpost, a school for potential dropouts run by the Better Boys Foundation, a kind of settlement house on the West Side. Says Chezzie: "At Farragut, you ain't learning nothing. You go out and walk around the hallways, and they catch you and bar you from school. Up here at Outpost, you come here because you want to learn. Instead of failing you, if you do work and it's not passing, you do it again until...
...loss to understand how George W. Ball can believe that U.S. national interest in Berlin is "fundamental" and in Viet Nam only "marginal" [Nov. 7]. As an isolated and militarily indefensible outpost, West Berlin is of no strategic value; it is indeed a liability, because fears of Soviet retaliatory pressures against the hostage city restrict American freedom of action elsewhere. The decisive argument against abandoning Berlin is simply that to surrender a U.S.-protected non-Communist population to Communist rule would be a morally intolerable betrayal, and that for Washington to let itself be coerced into committing such a betrayal...