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Though allied intelligence had predicted the attack, the embassy's defense consisted of only five U.S. military guards- just one more than normal. They fought back so fiercely that only their courage denied the enemy complete success. Sergeant Ronald W Harper, 20, a Marine guard, managed to heave shut the embassy's massive teakwood front doors just seconds before the guerrillas battered at them with rockets and machine guns, thus denying the V.C. entry to the main building...
...water. Then the serious work begins: filling sandbags. By continuously building new bunkers, each requiring hundreds of sandbags, the Marines can spread themselves more thinly, reducing casualties from a direct hit. Trees cut from the banks of a foul-smelling nearby creek provide supporting timbers. Says Staff Sergeant David Stout, 28, of Charlie Company, whose platoon calls itself the Ebony and Ivory Construction Co. for its racial mix: "The order of the day is sandbags and more sandbags and more sandbags, and then you'll sleep tight...
During the period he mentions, several of my productions were broadcast in West Germany. They were upbeat, with positive contents, and they received favorable reviews throughout the country. But Uncle Sam does not understand that Germans no longer act like the TV Hogan's Heroes characters Sergeant Schultz and Colonel Klink; rather, they exercise critical faculties and display self-respect...
...their bunkers, the 1,200 U.S. Marines who form part of a four-nation, 5,400-man peace-keeping force could do little more than keep their heads low and occasionally fire back. "We could hear bullets whizzing above us, and others were impacting on our sand bags," Sergeant Donald Williams, 28, later recalled. Whenever they saw a muzzle flash or some other indication of where the large rounds were coming from, the Marines retaliated with their rifles and machine guns, and finally resorted to their 155-mm cannons and missile-armed Cobra helicopters. At about...
Cutbacks in the amounts cities spend on police service have also helped fuel homeowners' fears. "People feel they're not getting enough protection," says Sergeant Norris Solomon, coordinator of private patrols for the Los Angeles police department. "A void has been created, and private enterprise has jumped in to make a buck." The Los Angeles area alone has some 500 security companies, roughly triple the number of just three years ago. Says former Los Angeles Police Chief Tom Reddin, 67, who retired in 1969 and now runs Reddin Security Services: "Business is crazy...