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...Vietnamese air and armor thrusts into the Parrot's Beak and beyond, Tri has waded farther than ever into the shooting. A newsman who joined him on one recent foray was astonished when Tri ordered his helicopter to land virtually in the midst of a skirmish, then ignored vicious Communist rocket and machine-gun fire to walk to a tank and order the reluctant driver to attack. "Go fast, man!" Tri shouted. "Go fast...
Britain produced many of the first temblors of the youthquake. There were the eleganty dressed but often vicious Teddy boys of the late 1950s. There were the gentler Mods and the tough leather-jacketed, working-class rockers in the '60s. Now British youth, having helped give rise to Hell's Angels and hippies an ocean away, have spawned yet another phenomenon: the skinheads...
...street fights; there were prayers and marches and assemblages. All, perhaps, were inevitable, and were necessary to awaken a sense of remaining alternatives in a people who had lapsed into apathy, exhausted by a meaningless, unending war, silenced by the smiling orthodoxy of an Administration that condoned the most vicious attacks on almost every form of dissent...
...more enlightened, inquisitive, truly troubled. Maybe they find it hard to reconcile the world of their textbooks with the one outside. As always, they are addled by puberty, bad grades, small injustices. But their awareness is already unwieldy; they have not been allowed to be themselves. Although the vicious secrets of Amerika have not been kept from even them they are still too young and too niggered to provide either cures of intelligent concern. They only feel, numbly, and they will have to be untaught in order to relearn why they fell. Their real world is still both circumscribed...
...Prang and Due Lap. Elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division and Saigon's 22nd Division are involved in the operation, which promises to be particularly arduous because wild terrain rules out anything but travel by foot. Like Bold Lancer, the exercise got off to a sputtering start; vicious ground fire pinned down the first troops to arrive, and an inexplicable shortage of helicopter fuel temporarily kept 1,000 men waiting for the jump-off in Viet Nam. After two days, the troops had combed only 1% of the base area...