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...Intent on stepping up regional, smaller unit offensive actions, even though that is a marked regression from last summer's regiment-sized attacks...
...maze of interlocking tunnels and chambers, the troops toted out a huge cache of ammunition and at least 675 weapons, including Chinese-made recoilless rifles and brand-new Soviet AK-47 assault rifles. U.S. intelligence experts believe that the cache was a resupply depot for the 274th North Vietnamese Regiment, which has been operating in the area...
...Great British Train Robbery (TIME, April 21), a plausibly clever re-creation of the 1963 heist of ?2,631,784 from a Royal Mail train. In Robbery, the Limeys have tried to recapture the story for their own, using the talents of Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and a regiment of able character actors, and the cinema verite style of Director Peter Yates. The result, unfortunately, is a hot property gone tepid with time...
Spooked by Spooky. As the North Vietnamese fled south toward the rising foothills of the Central Highlands, the Marines, now six companies strong, took off in pursuit. But the North Vietnamese were retreating to an area where at least a full regiment of more than 1,000 men was already entrenched in dugouts and caves. At dusk, the Communists struck back at the outnumbered Marines. Bayonet-wielding North Vietnamese soldiers charged the U.S. positions; some got within 15 feet of Marine machine guns before they were cut down. Marines snatched grenades from their dead buddies and hurled them without taking...
...point out that all the work of grading and laying out the grounds around the Cambridge Public Library was done by Negroes. This is the same Higginson who was graduated from Harvard in 1841 and from 1862 to 1864 was the colonel in command of the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States. Among his extensive literary output was an account of his Civil War experiences and observations, Army Life in a Black Regiment, a magnificent classic that was recently reprinted in paperback; and he was the first to encourage Emily Dickinson, whose poetry he eventually...