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When President Johnson last week clasped the ribbon around the neck of Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard, 38, it was only the 17th Medal of Honor awarded for the Viet Nam conflict...
...full saga of Army Staff Sergeant Jimmy G. Stewart's heroism near An Khe in May last year lies buried with him. But eight Viet Cong corpses sprawled around his body bore testimony to the ferocity of the 23-year-old air cavalryman's last fight to shield five wounded comrades. As the only member of his six-man squad left unhurt by the Viet Cong's first surprise onslaught, Stewart alone battled a platoon for four hours, beating back three savage assaults. When his M-16 rifle was empty, Stewart crawled through a barrage of bullets...
...languor that occasionally approaches drowsiness, her guitar unexceptional but sufficient. Though a newcomer to solo circles, Bobbie is clearly a pro. Her first song, composed at the age of seven, was picked out on the family's upright piano, and had to do with her English shepherd, Sergeant. Later came studies at the Los Angeles Conservatory and U.C.L.A., but not for long. Since the age of 17, Bobbie has supported herself in assorted musical jobs, working up by the end of last year to a $450-a-week Las Vegas nightclub stint...
...thugs from the party's far-left Jeunesse (youth) movement, some 2,000 Congolese stormed and sacked two floors of the Belgian embassy, invaded an adjacent apartment building and mauled an American Army sergeant and his wife who were trapped inside. Then it moved on to hurl rocks at the French cultural center and the American and British embassies, loot shops and set fire to cars along the way. Before Mobutu decided that it was time for him to ask the rioters to go home, they had torn down a 35-ft.-high bronze statue of Belgium...
Through an informant, police were kept advised of the League's activities. At 1:45 a.m. Sunday, the informant, a wino and ex-convict, passed the word (and was paid 50? for it): "It's getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling...