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...chamber was retired Army General Maxwell Taylor, 64, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, a major architect of U.S. policy in Viet Nam since 1961 and one of the President's most trusted advisers on the war. As commander of the 101st Airborne Division* at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit...
...Operation Van Buren, presided over by 2,500 troopers of the American 101st Airborne and South Korean marines, aimed at guaranteeing that the rice harvest would get to the peasants west of Tuy Hoa-and not to the Viet Cong...
...101st Senator." The indictment offers a glimpse at how the onetime $19,612-a-year Senate employee was able to scrape together a fortune that ran up to $2,000,000. The specific charges involve devious transactions over 3½ years that brought Bobby some $137,000 from clients who felt the need of his special talents as "the 101st Senator." None of the money, which he received largely in cash, was reported as taxable income. Furthermore, Baker not only deceived the Government but apparently never played quite foursquare with his cohorts...
...pristine Cam Ranh Bay, where czarist Russia's fleet took shelter just before its crushing defeat by the Japanese navy in 1905, combat engineers turned the natural harbor into a major port. Twenty miles down the coast, the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Brigade began operating as a mobile strike force. In the guerrilla-infested jungles around Saigon prowled the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), the 173rd Airborne, a 1,200-man battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, a 250-man New Zealand artillery unit...
...Army's biggest clout is contained in the recently created Field Force Viet Nam under Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen. Headquartered in Nha Trang in the largest and hardest-pressed of Viet Nam's four corps areas, Force V includes the First Team at An Khe, the 101st Airborne's 1st Brigade, and the arriving South Koreans, who will be under American command. The Royal Australian Regiment and the Royal New Zealand Artillery batteries are largely under their own command. Working from the long-established pattern of the advisers' program, U.S. officers confer with their Vietnamese...