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...trap for another showdown. U.S.-trained Colonel Huynh Van Cao traveled around Kien Tuong province telling villagers exactly where and when he intended to attack the Communists, showily deploying his men to back up his threats. Predictably, the cautious Viet Cong melted deep into their Plain of the Reeds stronghold, exactly where Colonel Cao wanted them. Suddenly shifting his troops, he deployed four infantry battalions on the Viet Cong's south flank. Three airborne battalions, backed up by armored companies moving overland, closed in on the Communists from the west and north. Provincial militia were called up to block...
...victory three weeks ago over a big Viet Cong guerrilla force on the Plain of the Reeds. The Communist Viet Congs obviously could not leave it at that. They handed out leaflets cockily warning that trouble would come at any moment in President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital stronghold of Saigon. That same night, trouble came. As a truck loaded with troops pulled out of an army camp scarcely two miles from Diem's palace, a terrorist lobbed a grenade from the shadows. Two soldiers were killed, three more seriously wounded. And in the countryside, Communist attacks continued...
...statistics did not seem to overly damage Sorensen's brief. The last stronghold of the one-room schoolhouse, Nebraska has more school systems than any other state-3,722, including 495 with no pupils at all and 1,823 with schools of 15 pupils or less. Nebraska believes in local control and local financing of schools; 91.4% of school revenue comes from local governments, and state aid is sparse. No state depends more on local financing; only Massachusetts spends less per capita on state aid to public education. While Nebraska is 25th in per capita personal income...
...wiliest guerrillas in the Communist Pathet Lao are Meos, who scamper by night over mountain slopes that would terrify the valley-dwelling Lao. On the pro-Western side. Colonel Vang Pao, a Royal Army Meo, has held stubbornly to a precipitous stronghold deep inside Communist territory, nicknamed "Happy Valley" by the U.S. pilots who must swoop down into it to land supplies...
...nominally democratic strongmen who rule heavily while spieling the jargon of social reform. On the entire South American continent, only one old-school tyrant remains: a trimly mustached, part-German artillery general named Alfredo Stroessner, boss of backward Paraguay. Last week, after a trip into Stroessner's stronghold, TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti reported that the survivor is under pressure to retire or reform. Reported Saporiti...