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...HILL. Sean Connery matches wits with a sadistic sergeant major (Harry Andrews) and forcefully illustrates man's inhumanity to man at a British army stockade during World...
...Creek. They talked with wonder about John Bade, a 22-year-old sergeant from Toledo, who was leaning half-conscious against a tree with three bullets in him when a Red officer walked up, raised his pistol and shot Eade through the eye. The bullet lodged in the back of his skull but didn't kill him, and Eade was back in the States for Thanksgiving. They talked with humor about Lieut. Bill Shiebert of Albany, N.Y., who wants to become a Catholic priest when he gets out of the Army next year. During a sharp fire fight, Shiebert...
Equally methodical was Specialist Fourth Class Nolan King, 20, a gangling, sleepy-voiced Georgian in the best Sergeant York tradition. In one day, he killed 14 Communists, captured 21, and seized seven weapons. "I walked off by myself up this little creek," he explained. "There was five of them up there by this little straw hooch they had made. They was just sittin' there coolin' it. I shot four of them. Then I went on up the creek some more and three of them jumped up. They looked like they were going to shoot...
Military Hero. Coup or not, it was the second time that "Jumping Joe" Mobutu, a sometime paratrooper and former sergeant in the Belgian army, had tried it. Five years ago, in the midst of a racking feud between Kasavubu and leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba, he had "neutralized" them both by seizing power on behalf of a "college of commissioners." But his army withdrew its full support, and Mobutu, then only 30 years old, was forced to retire after four hectic months...
...hours the fight raged on as Communist crossfire kept the little band pinned down. "Anyone who moved was hit," said Savage, as he described the bitter struggle in which first the platoon leader and then the platoon sergeant were mowed down. But the rest fought on as wave after wave of attacks was beaten back by the platoon's guns and pinpoint Air Cav artillery support. When the remnants of the 2nd Platoon were finally rescued and brought back to safety, they were dazed and jabbering, but still had discipline, pride and-most amazing of all-ammunition to spare...