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...eyes of the world," George Romney told a Cleveland audience last week, the U.S. has become "the practical successor of 19th century white colonialism. Our motives were good, but we fell into the ancient trap of rich and powerful men and nations. We relied too heavily on the material fruits of our progress. Great as our power is, we cannot by ourselves be a police force everywhere...
...hopeless situation, he radioed his base camp for bombing and napalm strikes: "Put it right on top of me. We might as well take some of them with us." At week's end Carpenter and other haggard survivors miraculously fought their way out of the trap-bringing their dead and wounded with them. Said Carpenter: "I'm just happy as hell to have my men out of there...
...another five minutes. A man in a green uniform blandly assured us that it would deal with the reasons for the rebel fight against the Ky government. That hardly seemed worth summoning us to the pagoda, and it suddenly occurred to us that it might very well be a trap. If the rebels feared a government attack on Tinh Hoi, what better way to forestall it than by arranging the presence of three dozen foreign reporters inside the pagoda...
...post office and exchanging them for 5% treasury bonds. On the trail at last, the police tailed the pair to Bojarsky's modest home in Paris, found nothing in searching it until one cop tripped on the carpet, flipping the hidden switch that opened a secret trap door. There it all was-Bojarsky's carefully constructed pulp vats and printing presses, surrounded by hundreds of bills drying on polyester slabs. For 16 years he had worked ten hours a day in a lO-ft.-sq. cave doing the jobs of seven skilled technicians, turned out a crackling...
...Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese Rangers on Operation Dan Chi (People's Determination) used American helicopters to trap another Viet Cong battalion. The Reds were part of the crack Soctrang Mobile Force, an outfit whose mobility failed it last week. Caught in a vise by three Ranger battalions, the Communists made their stand in a mangrove swamp near the village of Vinh Chau and suffered 262 dead...