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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). MGM's 1949 film Battleground, in which Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, U.S. Senator George Murphy and a host of other names out of the old M-G-M stable re-fight the Battle of the Bulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 5, 1965 | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...Three special C.R.A. centers handle operations not only in South Viet Nam but in Cambodia and Laos as well. Terrorists and saboteurs receive a special six-month course in Haiphong, learning how to blow up everything from ships to oil storage tanks. One pint-size James Bond named Tran Van Bui was out fitted with an automatic pistol (plus silencer), explosives and a small knife that could inject poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As Real as an Invading Army | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Even more elaborate were the preparations concerning Senior Captain Tran Van Tan of the central intelligence organization. Tan and three other Viet Cong agents were sent south to set up a clandestine radio station. The move was by sea, and the fledgling spies were outfitted with false identity papers, voting cards and fishermen's permits, then sent aboard an actual fishing boat. They were even trained in fishing skills so their covers would hold up. Aboard the boat they carried six sealed boxes containing guns, a generator, several radios and a bundle of South Vietnamese currency. But no sooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As Real as an Invading Army | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...themselves. The Armed Forces Council reportedly voted a no-confidence motion against Khanh. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the northernmost I Corps, was proclaimed chief of the capital's "liberation forces." For the moment, the winners seemed to be Thi, Ky and IV Corps Commander General Nguyen Van Thieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Trial for Patience | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Died. Jan Carl Van Panthaleon Bar on Eck, 84, founder and former president (1923-36) of Shell Union Oil Co., U.S. branch of the vast Royal Dutch/ Shell complex, a Dutch nobleman's son who in 1911 was sent across the Atlantic to investigate the possibilities for a foreign company in a land already rich in oil, tapped enough Stateside wells and strung enough competitive gas stations across the continent to make Shell a giant of U.S. industry (it now ranks seventh in oil, 15th among all U.S. companies); of lung cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 26, 1965 | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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