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...neck of land just south of the Marine airbase at Chu Lai. By week's end the U.S. had fought its first large-scale battle since Korea and had won decisively. Smashed with the Viet Cong was the myth that the Red foe is invincible in the tangled underbrush of his home land; smashed also was the myth that the U.S. can't fight on land in Asia...
...defenders fell back on a wall and wire-bound compound as the Viet Cong slaughtered women and children hiding in nearby dugouts. Though U.S. and North Vietnamese planes arrived with the dawn, rolling great red gouts of napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
Down a road in the rebel-infested northern Congo rolled a truckload of mercenaries led by three armored Jeeps. Suddenly the underbrush exploded with the fire of automatic weapons. Not a bullet was wasted on the Jeeps, but the Simbas, suddenly battlewise and well armed, riddled the truck, killing one of its nine occupants and wounding six others. Almost overnight, the spear-bearing rebel warriors had become better armed, better trained, and much more dangerous. "Every Simba in the north seems to have a new gun now," said a mercenary sergeant from Paulis. "We're finding their old Mausers...
...must have the broad support of the party. We feel, and Senator Goldwater agrees, the national chairman must have this broad support-not unanimity, but a majority of one is not enough." Ike's version: "We all agreed that there has to be some clearing away of the underbrush to make it possible through a democratic process to widen the core of the party and of the leadership...
Following yesterday's meeting, Dean Ford said he was "greatly relieved" by the two votes. "We have cleared away the underbrush and can now get the formulated opinions and views of Faculty members," he said...