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...provocative show of force, Grivas rolled up to Ayios Theodores, the larger of the two mud-brick villages, at the head of a regiment-sized column of armored cars and self-propelled artillery. After warning the Turks to submit or else, he sent three successive patrols through the village. When the third one drew fire, Grivas not only opened up on Ayios Theodoros with his vastly superior firepower but also commanded National Guardsmen to overrun the nearby village of Kophinou, whose main offense had been an attempt to replace its Greek name with a Turkish one. In the ensuing three...
...Road ("the Baltic Blockade"), which, conjectured Stokes, costs a 20-year commuter 100 days off his life. He announced plans for an inaugural ball to raise money for clothing for children of relief families. Even with a skillful advertising campaign, a large and capable biracial campaign staff and a regiment of 2,000 door knockers, Stokes's lead was down to 0.28% a few days before election...
...Viet Cong struck just after midnight one night last week, pouring a rain of rocket and mortar rounds on the Special Forces camp and on the sub-sector compound. Part of their 273rd Regiment roared into the undefended town itself, took it over and used its dispensary to treat Viet Cong wounded. At the same time, other elements of the 273rd attacked the subsector compound from the north and west, filtering through the gloom of the rubber trees and throwing themselves against the guns of the 105 men inside...
...nearly a month, the U.S. Army's famed 1st Infantry Division has been stalking an elusive quarry: the 271st Viet Cong Regiment, a hard-core Communist outfit that makes a specialty of terrorizing villages near "the Iron Triangle" northwest of Saigon. Last week, in the gloom of densely overgrown jungle trail 40 miles northwest of the capital, it was the 271st that found...
Commanded by a six-man battalion staff, some 175 troopers of the Big Red's 28th Infantry Regiment were filing two abreast through the dimly lit rain forest when the jungle suddenly exploded. From perches in trees and camouflaged positions on the ground, 400 or 500 V.C. sent rifle and machine-gun fire into the right side of the U.S. ranks with a fury that was unusual even for hard-fighting Charlie. Some V.C. stormed into U.S. lines carrying 60-lb. Claymore mines in their hands, blowing themselves up along with surprised G.I.s. Such kamikaze tactics, plus the fact...