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...Vietnamese F-5s and A-37s managed to blow up Luat's command headquarters. Meanwhile, the 23rd Division's forward command post had been destroyed by sapper charges. For a time, the only ARVN communication with the outside world was provided by an FAC spotter plane circling overhead. Trapped in the city were nine Americans, official U.S. Consular Representative Paul A. Struharik and eight missionaries...
...ground, 50 paratroopers in battle gear, who had been unloaded earlier from eight Alouette helicopters, took up positions around the barracks, at neighboring apartment buildings and along the highway. As two helicopter gunships whirled overhead loosing random bursts of fire, the paratroopers advanced, after a fashion, on the barracks. The Shootout lasted scarcely an hour. One infantryman was killed, and 18 were wounded...
...strategy was an enormous success. Only 79 drivers were so frantic to get to Las Vegas that they took the chance of making a run for it. Spotted by an airplane and a helicopter hovering overhead, they were soon ticketed by other patrol cars lurking on access roads. Normally, a dozen accidents take place on a big weekend, but only one occurred during the experiment: a drunk mistook a drainage ditch for an exit ramp...
...company recently renegotiated a $455 million, three-year revolving credit agreement with a syndicate of 80 banks led by New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. The banks gave Townsend his financial cushion mainly because he convinced them that he could and would slash Chrysler's overhead to the point where the company can make money even in a poor 6 million-car-sales year...
...classes before," says Ianniello, "but this was ridiculous. The only thing I learned was how to use the overhead projector." The lone requirement was to hand in a book report. All 14 students in the course, which is required for secondary education majors, got A's last spring semester...