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...Reds massed an estimated 1,500 men at Binhgia-the third time in recent weeks that they had fielded a regiment-size unit (they did the same at Soctrang 90 miles south of Saigon a fortnight ago and at the battle of Anlao Valley in central Viet Nam last month). U.S. advisers suspect that the Viet Cong, swelled by 600 North Vietnamese regulars now being infiltrated monthly, may be trying to chew up government reserve battalions while testing their own ability to fight sustained actions. The Reds are also striking ever closer to major cities. Last week two Viet Cong...
...instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador William Attwood broke off the talks. To save the lives of the hostages, the 600 men of Belgium's crack Regiment Para-Commando, led by a stocky, balding Africa hand, Colonel Charles Laurent, 51, would have to live up to their motto: Nee lactantia Nee Metu (Neither Boasting nor Fearing). They...
Resentment flared into the open two weeks ago as students and miners rioted in half a dozen towns. But with the army on his side, Paz squelched the uprising. Then last week, the army's crack Ingavi Regiment revolted in La Paz-and rebellion flamed through garrisons all around the country. From his home town of Cochabamba, where he had gone to avoid Paz, Barrientos openly denounced the President as ruthless and called on him to resign...
Screamers & Jumpers. In early September, at a sweaty, tumultuous Democratic convention in the musty 71st Regiment Armory on Manhattan's lower Park Avenue, Kennedy steamrollered Upstate Congressman Sam Stratton, his only rival, 968 to 153. He won the Liberal Party's endorsement the same day. Aware that the Liberals delivered 406,000 votes to Jack Kennedy in 1960 -more than J.F.K.'s 3 80,000-vote statewide margin of victory-Bobby welcomed their support...
...foremost the world's most impregnable natural fortress - one that might have been designed for the nuclear age. It is manned by 1,000 men of the Royal Air Force, some 700 Royal Navy personnel, and two companies of British soldiers. The troops, men from the Middlesex Regiment, provide a colorful guard for the governor, train Gibraltar's draftees, and keep ready to support the island's civil authorities in any emergency that might arise. The limestone Rock is a rabbit warren of caverns linked by 25 miles of deep-hewn tunnels. Unsinkable, indestructible, the bastion...