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...police did not get inside the building. Instead, they charged the faculty members who had surrounded Low on the outside to keep away assaults of conservative students. Twenty-five plainclothes police, billy clubs concealed at first under their trench coats, tried to break up the faculty for some unknown reason...
Then the Air Cav came in around Khe Sanh itself and immediately fanned out to clear the camp's perimeter of any remaining Communists, jumping into trenches built and stocked by the enemy during the eleven-week siege. A battalion of South Vietnamese rangers that had been landed inside Khe Sanh moved out to do the same, found enemy trench and bunker complexes extending right into their wire. After seizing the hills around the base, Pegasus and the men of Khe Sanh intended to try to roll the Communist forces back all the way to the Laotian border...
Death in a Bunker. Five other missionaries huddled in an adjacent house for two days as fighting raged, then took refuge in a hastily dug trench. Finally, the Rev. Robert Ziemer, 49, a minister from Toledo, Ohio, left the trench to plead with surrounding Communist troops to hold their fire. They shot him in the head and chest. Next to die was Nurse Ruth Wilting, 42, of Cleveland, who had gone to the clinic 200 yds. away for medicines; the Communists opened fire as she returned, and she fell into the bunker, mortally wounded...
...mostly meant to exemplify lust. Her makeup varies from Greek statuesque to a head-to-toe spray job of aluminum paint. When she welcomes Burton to an eternity of damnation, her eyeballs and teeth are dripping pink in what seems to be a hellish combination of conjunctivitis and trench mouth. Mercifully mute throughout, she merely moves in and out of camera range, breasting the waves of candle smoke, dry-ice vapor and vulgarity that swirl through the sets...
Died. Michael Popp, 62, Ike's Army tailor during World War II who, after the general complained about his bulky, hip-length officer's jacket, snipped out the natty, waist-length "Eisenhower jacket," which became the most popular bit of military wardrobe since the trench coat; of a heart attack; in Hamilton, Ohio...