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Korean Handiwork. First to close with the Viet Cong was a company of South Korean marines dug in on the coastal flatlands of Quang Ngai province, long a Communist stronghold. The Koreans, members of the elite Blue Dragon brigade, had purposely positioned themselves in the open, hoping to draw the Communists down from the forested mountains for a set-piece battle. The Korean perimeter was in the shape of a valentine, laced with concertina wire and reinforced with concrete revetments. On the night of St. Valentine's Day, a North Vietnamese regiment of 1,500 men struck...
...They steeped themselves in China's history and culture. In the process, they could not avoid being affected by the constant bloodletting and corruption on the Nationalist side, and the bright hope of the young frank communists. People came back from the communist stronghold at Yenan, Fairbank remembers, "incandescent" with praise for the ideas and humanity of Mao and his young friends. They returned to America burdened with both the memory of frustration and a message of hope about the Communists...
...dominant characteristic of Polish art has always been its steadfast alliance with Western Europe. This Slavic nation, situated on plainlands, has been invaded from all sides, by Mongols, Cossacks, Tartars, Teutonic Knights and Nazis; yet across the centuries it has remained a stronghold for artistic styles as familiar in Paris and Venice as in Warsaw. In no small part this allegiance comes from Poland's 1,000 years as a Christian nation oriented toward Rome...
Some examples were dramatic. The Irish Catholics of Massachusetts split wide open, deserting Democrat Edward McCormack by the thousands to re-elect Italian Republican John Volpe, who had been a good and popular Governor. Volpe even took that oldest Irish stronghold of all, Boston, city of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Curley. In New York, the Democrats followed the ethnic book by put ting an Italian (Frank Sedita) on the ticket as attorney general, but Rockefeller handily carried the Italian vote...
...with enough good guys and bad guys to populate the entire Western frontier. On the side of justice are Gunslingers Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan, hired to lasso a missing wife (Claudia Cardinale) kidnaped by Mexican Villain Jack Palance. The setting is a remote bandit stronghold in the early 1900s, the mood mean and violent...