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...1930s, he reinstated the navy as an independent service and started building a huge surface fleet. The Germans captured the partly finished hulks when they swept into Russia in 1941. Thus the mission of defending the Red Army's coastal flanks fell to the Soviet navy's ragtag fleet. Most seagoing men would have chafed at such a coastline assignment, but a young captain named Sergei Gorshkov welcomed it as an opportunity...
...attack. Shortly after midnight, the raiders assembled in units ranging from small suicide squads to well-armed company-size teams, and were led to their targets by local Communist guides. Some were dressed in neat, white button-down shirts and khakis, others in parts of ARVN uniforms or ragtag sports clothes. Dark clouds hung over the city, and only an occasional Jeep moved quickly through the eerie silence. Warned to expect something through captured enemy documents, military police had donned flak jackets and guard duty had been doubled. Saigon was a city waiting for trouble...
...party, and Giap-together with scores of other Communists-fled to China. There he met Ho Chi Minh and became a charter member of a group that the French will long remember: the Viet Minh. His assignment, based largely on his blackboard battlegrounds, was to organize Ho's ragtag guerrillas into a fighting army. That was in 1941, and Giap has been in charge of the army ever since...
...only ragtag ends of the complicated corporate battle remain to be resolved. But Saunders labors under no illusions about the future. "The Pennsy itself," he says, "is a tough property to operate." The Penn Central will be a lot tougher. Pennsy President Allen J. Greenough, 62, whose title in the company is still unsettled, puts it even more strongly. "This is a big dog with a lot of fleas," says Greenough. "We'll be scratching for a long time...
Organized three years ago from a collection of ragtag rightist groups, the N.D.P. has in the past 14 months scored impressive gains. In six state-level elections, it has attracted 6% to 9% of the vote, captured a total of 1.5 million ballots and won 49 seats in the various legislatures. If that trend holds until the 1969 elections, the National Democrats not only will replace the fading Free Democrats as Germany's third party but also will place 40 and perhaps more delegates in the Bonn Bundestag...