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...divided the area into six military subdivisions-one comprising Saigon and Cholon, the other five wedges pointing at the heart of the city-and parceled out their troops among them. Not all of the Communist units are at full strength, but each of the five wedges harbors an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion, four autonomous main-force battalions and guerrillas. Already inside the capital, say intelligence sources, is the so-called A2/C 10 Special Action Command of perhaps 1,600 undercover troops, including both longtime operators and men recently infiltrated...
...outset of the 1917-18 school year, Lowell declared that all students still at Harvard would be expected to list at least one military course on their study cards. Freshmen were permitted to take military science in place of any required subject. ROTC officials hoped to raise a regiment of 950 men and got 1028 Harvard enlistees...
Back to Work. Those fears seemed to be ungrounded. Though De Gaulle moved a tank regiment into the vicinity of Paris and alerted a few reserve units, there was no fresh rush to the barricades by his opponents, the workers and the anarchical students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Shoring up his government, De Gaulle fired eight Ministers, including just about everyone identified with his old social and labor policies, and switched two important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay...
Deadliest Enemy. For his part, Lyndon Johnson last week broke his silence on the talks. He did so during a White House ceremony honoring the 26th Marine Regiment (one of the outfits that stormed Iwo Jima in 1945) for its gallantry in holding off the Communists at Khe Sanh. "It is still not clear that Hanoi is ready for an early or an honorable peace," said the President. But one thing, he added, should be unmistakably clear: "We shall not be defeated on the battlefield while the talks...
...except for the continuing murderous antiaircraft fire, which continued to claim U.S. helicopters, A Shau proved to be lightly defended on the ground. The men of North Viet Nam's 559th Supply and Transportation Regiment did not put up much of a fight, retreating into the hills. Steady allied advance over the valley floor became a treasure hunt for the enormous caches of hardware that the Communists had to leave behind when they fled. It included Soviet tanks, trucks and bulldozers, vast quantities of rockets, mortars, artillery, small arms, flamethrowers, gas masks-and enough electronic equipment and tapes...