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Costly Battle. Next day 20 helicopters with U.S. pilots were kept busy jungle-hopping troops of the South Vietnamese 7th Division to build up an assault on the Viet Cong stronghold near Due Hoa. One helicopter crash-landed on a muddy pineapple field and was battered by Communist mortar and rifle fire, killing two Vietnamese soldiers and injuring three Americans, who set the helicopter afire to keep it out of Viet Cong hands. Said one hard-worked U.S. pilot: "It sounded like World War II out there." Even Saigon was not safe: on Christmas Day, a 26-year...
Aghast, Gullion tugged at Tshombe's sleeve, implored him to keep talking; the alternative, he pointed out. might well be Tshombe's own destruction, for the U.N. force that now controlled Elisabethville, Tshombe's Katanga stronghold, would never hand back the city unless agreement was reached. Ralph Bunche buttonholed both sides; two other key U.N. officials-Ghana's Robert Gardiner and Tunisia's Mahmoud Khiari-feverishly suggested possible new formulas for compromise...
...vote was a blow to Governor Rockefeller, who campaigned hard for Lefkowitz, hoped to enhance his own prestige by capturing the state's biggest Democratic stronghold, or at least to come close. But even in defeat, Republicans, long lacking an effective city organization, had some reason to feel encouraged by the outcome. Lefkowitz, polling 836,553 votes, did better than expected and carried ten of 65 assembly districts, including the entire borough of Richmond (Staten Island), which Wagner won by 18,600 votes in 1957. In The Bronx, running with the support of the labor-backed Liberal Party, Republican...
...watching with interest because-despite the attention now being showered on South Viet Nam-South Korea remains an important stronghold in the chain of defense against Red China. The large South Korean army retains its importance, and the U.S.'s investment in the country, both in terms of economic aid ($3 billion) and the 33,629 American lives lost during the Korean war, is massive enough to warrant continued protection. Reforms are long overdue in South Korea, and the efforts of Park* and his 27-man junta go deep, reaching down to the smallest details of life...
...midnight, when Latakia radio went off the air, the U.A.R.'s last Syrian stronghold had fallen to the rebels...