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President Johnson decided to make another major increase in American troop levels in the war zone. There, in a series of savage engagements (see THE WORLD), combat-hardened U.S. fighting men mauled well-equipped and well-disciplined regular North Vietnamese divisions-proving again that man for man, gun for gun, the American soldier is as deadly a foe today as he was in the Pacific jungles and islands of World War II. And, as another, less-noticed measure of the nation's wider and deeper involvement in Viet Nam's war, the four-year toll of American lives...
Variety Lights, Fellini's first feature film, gives you a chance to observe the director's customary conflict between honesty and sophistication, before his own sophistication set in. Fresh from five years on the vaudeville boards, Fellini portrays his colorful troop of two-bit showmen with both insight and sympathy...
...they? These Americans parading about with placards and chanting: "Hey, hey, L.B.J.! How many kids did you kill today?" These burning-eyed youths who set fire to their draft cards and urge others to do the same? These interpositionists who stand on railroad tracks to block U.S. troop trains? These professors who insist that the war in Viet Nam is no more than the struggle of the peace-loving peasant to win the national independence and personal free dom denied him by U.S. intervention? What are they? Are they pacifists in any real meaning of the word? Are they malingerers...
...Closer to the coast, northeast of An Khe, thousands of troops from the 1st Cavalry joined Vietnamese army and marine units in a far more important drive called Operation Shiny Bayonet. Three waves of B-52 bombers and a blistering artillery bombardment plastered the landing zones before the Americans swept in by helicopter in what might become the largest operation of the war so far. Eight troop-carrying choppers were hit by ground fire, but resistance was light as the operation began; by nightfall of the first day, the 1st Cavalrymen were hot on the heels...
Nothing in the U.S. arsenal in Viet Nam has produced more spectacular results than the helicopter, which is now used for rocket and strafing attacks, troop hauling, supply runs, rescue missions and reconnaissance. Success in war is also producing spectacular results for the $900 million-a-year helicopter industry. With the increasing U.S. commitment in Viet Nam the Pentagon this year has ordered an additional $600 million worth of helicopters from Bell, Hughes Tool and Boeing-Vertol, which are (along with Sikorsky) the leaders of the industry...