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...hamlets and one Self-Defense Corps post. Refusing to let the hamlets' 4,000 peasants flee for protection, the Viet Cong fought off 500 counterattacking paratroopers and other government contingents backed by dive bombers, napalm and artillery. Finally the Reds withdrew toward Cambodia, having inflicted the worst government toll of any single action so far in the war: 94 dead, 32 wounded...
...most likely spot for the center is a plot of land between the Massachusetts Toll Road extension and Cambridge St., on the southeast bank of the Charles River. This plot is located about one mile south of the University...
Queue de Poisson. Even more ominous is the death toll, which has jumped from 7,166 in 1953 to 10,103 in 1962, with 229,485 injured. If U.S. motorists killed at a similar rate, U.S. traffic deaths would amount to 120,000 a year instead of the actual 42,600 annually. The road slaughter is not completely the fault of inadequate highways, but often results from French élan. It is common in France to speed up as soon as you discover that the car behind you is trying to pass. The unofficial code of the chevalier...
...both English and Spanish. Giving up practice as what he calls "a Texas country lawyer" in 1943, he joined the State Department, serving over the years mostly in Latin American posts (Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador) or dealing with Latin American affairs in Washington. The jobs took a personal toll: in 1947, when he was Second Secretary in Caracas, Venezuela, his first son swallowed some gaily colored fireworks, thinking they were candy, and died of phosphorous poisoning. In Mexico City Mann suffered from chronic altitude sickness...
Room at the Top. As the revolutionary glow that followed Diem's overthrow fades, South Viet Nam's generals seem to be watching each other ever more alertly. They now often wrangle over policy in marathon debates that last until 5 a.m. Bureaucracy also takes its toll of leadership. Brigadier General Le Van Kim, a top strategist, is occupied by administrative chores; last week one of his staff's chief projects was requisitioning three typewriters. Near by, General Dinh flopped back in his chair, groused that the pile of paper on his desk grows higher each...