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...named Task Force Garry Owen. The troops will help protect the Bien Hoa-Saigon-Long Binh area. That is basically the job of the 3rd Brigade, except that now, as the task force's commander, Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Walker Jr., put it last week, "we have more terrain and fewer men to cover it with...
This book records Whalen's disillusionment. No dove, he wanted to end the Viet Nam War-the better to pursue the cold war on more favorable terrain. He wrote a speech for Nixon opposing Lyndon Johnson's escalation and calling for great-power negotiations to end the war. Nixon, says Whalen, almost delivered it. He confided to Whalen that he thought the war could not be won. But then Johnson dropped out of the race and Nixon figured that he did not need to take any dramatic stand on Viet Nam. Rejecting Whalen's speech, he adopted...
...Highly jumbled chaotic terrain, including many canyons, some of which seem to have been carved out by flowing water in the recent geological past. The major feature of the region is a giant gorge that is reminiscent of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. It is 2,500 miles long, 75 miles wide and nearly four miles deep...
Nevertheless, the results proved that McGovern had very nearly beaten Humphrey in a state that should have been natural Humphrey terrain. Unlike Wisconsin, where McGovern's organizers began working months ago, Ohio was not even important to McGovern's plans until just three weeks before the primary. But he outspent Humphrey by more than...
...their words add up to something extraordinary. Stark figures on an uncertain terrain, they are voices amid thunder, and the voices stick in the mind. Wiesel, who calls himself a Hasid, has done honor to his past with a superb piece of narrative artistry and -more important-with a stunning affirmation of life. Mayo Mohs