Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between Pleiku and the coastal town of Qui Nhon, and inflicted heavy losses on a South Korean division that tried to reopen the road. But the North Vietnamese were also suffering heavily in this section from American bombings; B-52 raids inflicted enormous casualties on the NVA 28th regiment...
...violence. In all, there were more than 250 shooting incidents last week. Most of them were apparently begun by the Official wing of the I.R.A., which prefers bullets to bombs, the favorite tactical weapon of the Provisionals. In one particularly grisly act, a corporal in the Ulster Defense Regiment, the largely Protestant provincial militia, was kidnaped and murdered, and his body booby-trapped with 475 Ibs. of explosives (a British bomb-disposal squad successfully dismantled the devices). In addition, two teen-age girls who are engaged to British soldiers were abducted by I.R.A. women, shorn of their hair, and daubed...
THERE were beaucoup VC," said Sergeant Lam Son, a twelve-year veteran of the ARVN 9th Regiment, who earlier had been fortunate enough to escape from Loc Ninh, the town that was overrun by the North Vietnamese in their drive on An Loc. "They [the North Vietnamese] had about 30 tanks and many of us were killed. We kill many VC, but they too strong." When I met the sergeant, he was preparing to move north again toward the besieged city of An Loc. His unit was in the village of Lai Khe, 30 miles south of An Loc, which...
...vocal brilliance, Soprano Joan Sutherland has often seemed to have the personality of an Amazonian Barbie doll: imposing, but stiff and cool. Recently she dispelled much of that reputation with her hearty clowning in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week, with her appearance in the first of two 30-minute TV shows called Who's Afraid of Opera? (PBS), her humanization seemed complete. Singing, lecturing, bantering with a trio of puppets, she was revealed as a thoroughly warm and winning woman...
...Then off she goes to act out key scenes, sing arias and take part in telescoped ensembles, returning to confide in the puppets when the plot gets strenuous. "Don't worry," one of them reassures her when she loses her boy friend Tonio in The Daughter of the Regiment (scheduled to be shown this week). "I've read the libretto. He comes back...