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...point that it becomes coercive -- when students lie down on the tracks to block a troop train -- protest changes from essential ingredients to something alien to the liberal tradition," he said...
Resuming Arms. At week's end New Delhi was astir with reports of Red Chinese troop movements, not only on the Sikkim border but far to the west in Ladakh as well. In Washington, Indian Ambassador B. K. Nehru strode into Secretary of State Dean Rusk's office to ask for resumption of U.S. arms shipments...
...battle for Saigon's edge may swell soon: two new Viet Cong regiments have recently arrived on the scene. Already the U.S. has beefed up its response. Last week Saigon felt the explosive touch of Guam-based B-52s, as the giant SAC bombers hit a V.C. troop concentration only 20 miles from the capital. It was the 17th mission for the B-52s since they were first brought into the war last June. Though each plane's sortie on the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam costs $30,000, the B-52s have distinct merits. Each...
...hatch. "O.K., men, we're marines, let's do the job," shouted one young corporal, but as he climbed out of his amtrak to lead a counterattack, a bullet hit him between the eyes. The remaining marines finally made a stand inside two of the lumbering troop carriers, taking turns sharpshooting from their peepholes and splashing water on each other to relieve the sweltering heat...
...Viet Nam's will-o'-the-wisp war is mobility. As guerrillas, the Viet Cong have naturally used it to the best advantage so far, slipping stealthily through swamps and jungles to attack, then disappear. But thanks to the growing armada of troop-carrying transports and helicopters in Viet Nam, the U.S. has developed its own brand of mobility. Last week, despite shifting veils of monsoon rain and cloud, that mobility was being used to good effect. Siege & Spider Holes. First demonstration came in the battle for Route 19, an affair that at first glance seemed doomed...