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...case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
Looking at the situation, the U.S. decided that the only way to defend Khe Sanh was by a massive application of airpower. At Tan Son Nhut airport outside Saigon, General William W. ("Spike") Momyer set up a special command whose sole mission was to orchestrate an aerial operation around Khe Sanh. Working over a sandbox model of the Khe Sanh area, two of the U.S. Army's most gifted tacticians-General Creighton Abrams and Lieut. General William B. Rosson-figured out the most logical places for Giap to concentrate men and supplies, then designated those areas as prime targets...
...hitch together the top and bottom of her bare-midriff dresses with gold chains, says, "Women want their bodies to speak after they have gone in for the exercise, the massage, the diet. They also want to show off another thing they have been working all day on-their tan." For James Galanos, the bare midriff means skimpy bra tops worn with long evening skirts. Bare midriffs are also fine by Mollie Parnis, who links together the bra tops with silk knots or a big ring. Donald Brooks adds demure long sleeves and a high neckline to focus more attention...
...Washington, D.C., on a Friday afternoon two weeks ago, it was two huge pillars of gray smoke rising above the tan brick office buildings of K Street. Absolutely silent, thousands of cars filled with white government workers were evacuating the city. Every afternoon, they head for the bridges over the Potomac River in tangled horn-honking confusion, with their blue Maryland and black Virginia plates. But today, they were locked together bumper-to-bumper, heading for Key Bridge in a massive, determined phalanx. No one blew a horn. Quietly, the shirtsleeved car-pool drivers and passengers looked over their shoulders...
Died Dr. Charles E. Fuller, 80, Baptist minister turned radio evangelist whose sermons reached 10 million weekly in the 1940s; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. "If you are not in Jesus Christ, you are a child ot Sa-tan!" cried Fuller on his Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, and at the peak of his career the message was beamed out every Sunday on 900 stations across the U.S. Though his popularity faded in recent years, he could still be heard on some 500 stations, many of which will continue to broadcast his sermons on tape...