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...Viet Cong tried to overrun the 11th Armored Cavalry the same way-with far different results. Bivouacked in an open field 53 miles east of Saigon, the Americans were hit just before midnight by Viet Cong mortar and recoil-less-rifle fire. "The V.C. were loaded for bear," said U.S. Army Major David Doyle. "They were well outfitted and their equipment was new." But in a sharp, short fight, the cavalry lost only nine men, the enemy...
...From China. Despite such exercises in extended solipsism, the defeat could not be hidden. What was left of Jordan was swarming with refugees from the overrun west bank of the Jordan River. Amman's normal population of 300,000 was swelled by at least 100,000 refugees, many of whom arrived with their feet bleeding, their earthly possessions left behind. Schools, mosques and public buildings were converted into sleeping quarters, and thousands of refugees bedded down on sidewalks, in doorways or on the city's rocky hillsides. They foraged in garbage cans for food, which quickly became scarce...
...Bamboo Poles. Scarcely three miles south of the DMZ, the Communists attempted to overrun the camp of Con Thien, defended by two companies of Marines and three companies of Vietnamese irregular forces advised by a U.S. Special Forces team. The entire 4th Battalion of the North Vietnamese 821st Regiment attacked, led by two companies of sappers who cut their way through the Marines' barbed-wire perimeter by thrusting ahead of them satchel charges and bangalore torpedoes mounted on the tips of bamboo poles. The Marines hit back with rapid M-16 rifle fire and grenades, plus twin...
...chances are good that there is a way to get there. Most popular are the traditional stopovers-London, Paris, Rome-though many of the bargain spots of yesteryear are now hopelessly overcrowded. Out this season, says Fielding, are Torremolinos on Spain's Costa del Sol ("It has been overrun by the beats and the yé-yés; there are five different sexes there at least"), the French Riviera ("fading fast"), Italy's Adriatic coast below Venice ("absolutely overrun with Germans"), the islands of Ibiza and Majorca ("This stabs me in my left ventricle...
...miles away was dispatched to aid Suoi Tre's defenders. It was delayed by difficulty in crossing the steep-banked, muddy Suoi Samat River. Finally a crossing was filled in by a tank mounting a bulldozer blade. Just as the Americans at Suoi Tre were about to be overrun entirely, the delayed column of 80 armored personnel carriers and tanks rumbled through the trees. As they came, they crushed the massed Viet Cong beneath their treads and sprayed the enemy ranks with withering machine-gun fire. Hands popped from tank turrets and dropped grenades to blast off Viet Cong...