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Later, North Vietnamese and NLF spokesmen said the 7th Battalion of the 17th Calvary Regiment and "several battalions" from the 5th Mechanized Division and the 101st Airborne Division are operating in Laos. The United States called the accusations "all nonsense...
...Kompong Som, Cambodia's one deepwater port and site of its only oil refinery. Another force, combining Cambodian infantry and South Vietnamese armor, pushed north from Kompong Som. The pincers closed on the rugged, heavily jungled Elephant Mountains, where 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars from the crack 101st Regiment had been blocking a 25-mile stretch of Route 4 since last November. Repeatedly, U.S. Phantoms and South Vietnamese A-37s pounded the mountain passes from which the dug-in North Vietnamese commanded Route 4, otherwise known as the Cambodian-American Friendship Highway...
After his 21st birthday, Prince Eddy was commissioned in the tenth Hussars, his father's regiment. On one occasion, according to Philippe Jullian in his book Edward and the Edwardians, "the police discovered the Duke in a maison de rencontre of a particularly equivocal nature during a raid . . . The young man's evil reputation soon spread. The rumor gained ground that he was Jack the Ripper . . ." Because of his unusually long neck, his father would tell children of the royal family, "Don't call him Uncle Eddy, call him Uncle-Eddy-Collars-and-Cuffs." Until his death...
...defend Millington, but he goes about it with a cool, indefatigable, relentless quest for the truth. Mrs. Hasseltine, it turns out, has indeed been attacked, but not by Millington. As Drake zeroes in on the real culprit, he also unearths evidence that the much-vaunted "honor" of the regiment is something of a mockery...
...know this is Mrs. Hasseltine herself, who has traded on the genuine honor and outrage of most of the officers in pressing her charges. In referring to Millington, Mrs. Hasseltine goes on to say, "He is the only gentleman I have met in all my years with this regiment." But he has not acted remotely like a gentleman, only like a sour, spoiled, self-indulgent brat. Besides, Mrs. Hasseltine is in the weakest position to raise any moral questions since it is she who has maligned an innocent man's character. Even as plot jockeying, this kind of dishonest...