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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First Blood. When the lead units of Pegasus were within a mile of Khe Sanh's perimeter, they halted to let the Air Cav's rocket-firing helicopters pound away at North Vietnamese gunners still dug into surrounding hills. Once the guns were silenced, Air Cavalrymen were lifted in to seize the high ground around the base. But the Marines inside Khe Sanh drew first blood in that mission. Breaking out of their own perimeter for the first time since the siege began, they stormed and took Hill 471, two miles from their base...
Even if the South Africans do so, Swiss bankers last week insisted that they can challenge London's long supremacy in the market. Their customers siphoned off some $2 billion worth of gold from London between the mid-November devaluation of the pound and the mid-March closing of the gold pool, when the U.S. and six other countries stopped selling gold to the private market. That huge supply, equal to about two years' South African output, must remain the key source of bullion for free-gold trading for some time...
...part of its continuing efforts to bolster the pound, Britain last month imposed a severe tax on all investment income exceeding $7,200. Though Brit ons have grown accustomed to bitter fiscal medicine, that dose has been particularly hard to swallow. Reason: the special one-year measure carries the country's progressive taxation to the point of confiscation, resulting in a tax bite that can, in higher income brackets, amount to more than...
...thinking about being thirty, and holding an automatic pistol I didn't know how to fire, when Washburn leaned over and very quietly, very precisely, whispered 'grenade.' He probably yelled it, but I was switched off, half-dead from the pounding of the artillery and the 500-pound bombs and it seemed to me that the warning came in a whisper. Then he gave me a push. There was a flash and a furious burst of fire; the grenade had landed a yard away." The attack was repulsed by a radioman with a grenade launcher, but Just...
...three hours a day, five days a week, Peters has been throwing, working hard on his pitching rhythm. "I just can't get anything over. I've got to get the rhythm," he said. The 6-5, 210-pound righthander suffered a similar slump in the middle of last season when he lost to Princeton, Columbia, and Dartmouth, and he thinks he'll pull out of this one. "It's not an insurmountable problem," he said. Coach Norm Shepard agreed yesterday, "I don't see why he shouldn't pull...