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...march kindled the hopes of Grenada's 5,800 Negroes and prompted Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference to set up shop there. Despite promised concessions by town officials, the summer months witnessed a succession of ugly incidents. Local police wantonly assaulted a peaceable platoon of Negro pickets; sheriff's deputies broke up a civil rights fund-raising dance with tear gas. Though more than 250 of their number were arrested on various charges, the Negroes persisted in their S.C.L.C.-backed boycott of local white merchants. And when a federal court, acting last month...
...machine guns, cutting down 25 Reds with the first volley. Then Australian, New Zealand and U.S. artillery found the range. When the smoke cleared, the Communists were in full flight, and 220 Viet Cong dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened by a Viet Cong trying to tug off his boots. "Bug off!" Miller shouted at the startled Red, who promptly complied...
...afternoon the 26-man platoon was airlifted to a tiny landing zone in the northern Ia Drang Valley near the Cambodian border, where a North Vietnamese regiment had been spotted. No sooner had four of the six choppers unloaded than an enemy ambush opened up from the surrounding jungle. Most of the men were cut down in their tracks. Three overran one enemy machine-gun nest, only to be chopped up by another. "Sergeant Shockey," the platoon's first sergeant called out, "the commander's dead, and I'm dying. Take over the platoon." Moments later, Sergeant...
...next morning, the rest of A Company arrived after an all-night march. "I cried when I saw them," Glaspie recalls. "And I cried when I saw our dead." Of the 26 platoon members, only Shockey and seven others survived. A few hours later, a chaplain arrived for a special Mass. "The smell of death was still in the air," Pablo recalls. "Spent shells were all around. And the blood had been rain-washed pink." Two days later, Pablo and Glaspie volunteered for another helicopter-infantry assault. "We ain't unlucky," Glaspie shrugged. "This is just...
...under way, complete with dispensaries, trading centers and schools. In the village of Huai Fuang near the Laos border, last week about 50 students sat in crisp regulation white shirts and khaki shorts in an open, thatched-roof classroom, learning to read and count from a border policeman whose platoon had supplied the class uniforms and haircuts. On the wall behind the teacher were three objects that symbolized the new presence: a Thai flag, a picture of Thailand's King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit and a picture of the Lord Buddha. The police had even directed the building...