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Last week the world's headlines once again were filled with coups and chaos, border clashes and broader questions. Bands of murderous Somali shiftas prowled the wastelands of Ethiopia and Kenya, sniping at trucks and burning police outposts. The Ethiopians retaliated by sending three fighter planes to strafe Somali border posts. Before the latest border incident was over, 58 had died on both sides, and Somalia was no closer to achieving its aim of annexing its neighbors' grazing land...
...guerrillas, however, had successfully lobbed a 57-mm. shell (from a captured U.S. recoilless rifle) into the fort, setting it afire. The battle raged until morning, when three waves of government planes, some piloted by Vietnamese and some by Americans accompanied by Vietnamese trainees, finally appeared to bomb and strafe the fleeing Viet Cong. Not until early afternoon did Vietnamese paratroopers arrive; by then, the enemy had disappeared. At nightfall, however, despite the paratroopers' presence, the Communists had managed to remove most of their 56 dead. Reported government casualties: 18 dead. 12 wounded...
...sound of aircraft engines, residents of the city climbed to their rooftops to see what was happening. Two AD6 Skyraider fighter-bombers of the South Vietnamese air force were lazily circling the spacious palace grounds, gracefully power-gliding below the 500-ft. ceiling to drop bombs, fire rockets, strafe the building. Then they pulled up sharply into the heavy clouds before zooming down for another pass. "With that weather," said a U.S. Air Force officer, "they did a hell...
South Viet Nam planes dropped flares over Due Hoa and used the glaring illumination to strafe and bomb the Viet Cong positions outside the village. By morning, truckloads of troops were converging on Due Hoa to follow up the retreating guerrillas. Not only South Vietnamese combat soldiers were being employed. U.S. Specialist Four James T. Davis, 25, of Livingston, Tenn., was riding a three-quarter-ton Signal Corps truck equipped with a location finder to spot a clandestine Red radio transmitter that has been broadcasting messages to Communist North Viet Nam. On Communal Road No. 10, a little before noon...
...that he had once been a complacent Trujillo stooge and had better be again. By now, twelve U.S. warships boldly stood to in clear sight of the capital. Balaguer was not alone. General Rodriguez rounded up the support of several armed forces commanders by telephone, sent his planes to strafe four reluctant garrisons in the interior...