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From 100 canny Australian jungle warriors seeded as advisers through the northernmost I Corps, through the tough South Korean infantrymen and marines nearly 25,000 strong on the central coast, down to the 4,550 Australian "diggers" and New Zealand artillerymen near Saigon (see map), the other fighting allies are present and accounted for. If they are sometimes overlooked in the flow of dispatches, they are hardly ever by the Viet Cong. For each contingent has brought its own unique style and skills to the Viet Nam conflict...
Blood All the Way. The Australian (New Zealand's "Kiwi" contribution to the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps is a 150-man, six-gun, 105-mm. battery) approach to the tactics of the Viet Nam war was honed in jungle warfare against the Japanese in World War II and the Communists in Malaya. Their credo: avoid trails, avoid villages, avoid resupply; slide into the jungle like a snake and hide, then terrorize the enemy at will. "Fortunately, we've trained and equipped ourselves for such a war as this in Southeast Asia for years," says Brigadier...
...Pacific-and to impress the U.S. Government favorably-in hopes of capturing a piece of the promising civilian business there. Figuring that nonmilitary traffic across the Pacific will continue to boom, Continental has applied for several routes from the U.S. fanning across the ocean to New Zealand and Korea. The awards will be decided, probably not before 1968, by the one man most concerned with performance in Viet Nam: the President...
Born. To Peter Snell, 27, New Zealand track champ, who in 1962 broke three world records in eight days; and Sally Turner Snell, 24: their first child, a girl; in Auckland, New Zealand...
...least of the problems is that the contractors stand to lose many of the hard-working desert veterans, who have a habit of settling where the job takes them. Cogefar, another Milan company, is about to begin a $56 million tunnel-boring job for a hydroelectric plant on New Zealand's Tongariro River. Many of the 400 skilled GH Insabbiati flying out to do it will probably never return to Italy...