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Steele, skiing two near perfect runs in the slalom, beat second place finisher Jim Vandergrift of Middlebury by over one and a half seconds...
...last week to make that impression stick. In a series of chest-beating radio broadcasts, Hanoi urged the Communist forces in South Viet Nam to "take advantage of our victory in Laos" by mounting "any action, large or small." Mortar, artillery and rocket fire continued to pepper Khe Sanh, Vandergrift and other bases near the DMZ, while bloody ground assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen and the hamlet chief. Farther north...
...running 40 miles across South Viet Nam into Laos. At Khe Sanh, road graders rolled across the red clay plateau as troops patched one shell-torn runway and built a second to handle up to 40 big C-130 transports a day. Long-disused combat bases with names like Vandergrift, Bastogne and Veghel, snaking south toward the A Shau Valley, were also reopened. Significantly, many of the U.S. troops involved in the operation were told that they could expect to remain for one to three months...
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...United States. I can't see how they figure that their voices would be silenced if they returned. After all, this is not Russia, and we do have freedom of speech. Maybe they forgot about the Bill of Rights, or wanted to forget about it ... DONALD J. VANDERGRIFT Sergeant U.S.M.C. Camp Lejeune...