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...Cambodia. Two weeks after the offensive began, no fewer than 800 Communist troops stormed Landing Zone Grant, charging through three rows of concertina barbed wire. In the battle, a rocket crashed into the command post, killing the base commander, Lieut. Colonel Peter Gorvad. Last week, armed with machine guns, satchel charges and flamethrowers, they tried again. This time the Americans were waiting; cranking down their huge 105-and 155-mm. guns, they opened up on the attackers pointblank. The two extended battles took the lives of 17 Americans and 285 North Vietnamese...
...similar suicidal attack penetrated the defense perimeter of the 25th U.S. Division headquarters at Cu Chi, northwest of Saigon. In that charge about 50 sappers managed to sneak through ten defensive rings of wire, then sprinted down a flight line and destroyed nine helicopters with satchel charges. Only a few of the attackers carried rifles; the survivors later explained that they had left their valuable weapons behind before going into the assault-in the knowledge that they would not survive the mission...
...This is my love," said LeRoy ("Satchel") Paige. "I'm glad to be back to my love." With that simple pronouncement last week, old Satchelfoots signed a contract with the Atlanta Braves, who will use him as a pitching coach for the balance of this season and in 1969. The job will give the ageless Satch time to log another 158 days on a major-league roster, thus qualifying him for a $250-a-month pension...
...Satchel is one of the greatest pitchers of all time," said Braves Owner William Bartholomay, "and baseball would be guilty of negligence should it not assure this legendary figure a place in the pension plan." That it would. Though Satch leaves everyone guessing about his age, he was born some time around 1905, the son of a Mobile, Ala., gardener. In an era when professional sport was for whites only, the gangling, broad-shouldered iron man with the blazing fastball had to sweat out a living on the old Negro circuit. For almost three decades, he pitched as often...
There were no mortars, but the two dozen guerrillas that crept up to the base one night last week carried AK-47 automatic rifles and satchel charges. The men penetrated the northern edge of the base at a point where there was no fence. Thai guards responsible for base security flashed the alarm. By that time, however, the intruders had already damaged two planes, an F-4D Phantom fighter bomber and a C-141 jet transport fitted for medical evacuation. In the confusing half-hour firefight that ensued, a Thai guard was killed and four Americans were wounded, one critically...