Word: 5th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hunting the Hunters. It wasn't that easy for Specialist Fifth Class Daniel Torres, 25, of Corpus Christi, Texas. A medic with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of the Air Cav, Torres was standing by when a radioed cry for help came in from another company that had just been ambushed and decimated. Torres volunteered to go out with a rescue patrol, grabbed seven litters from MEDEVAC helicopters, and moved out. About 11 p.m. they found the wounded-some 45 men huddled around a giant anthill. On litters and on foot, 18 wounded got back. Torres searched...
...Wednesday morning, X Ray proudly theirs, "the First Team" split into two units and moved on. For one unit, some 500 men from the 5th and 7th Regiments, it was a move toward near disaster. Barely three miles north of X Ray, the long column crossed the la Drang River. There lay two North Vietnamese soldiers sleeping in the grass, a sure sign that more trouble was not far away. It wasn't. Suddenly from all sides came a deadly hail of gunfire. The enemy seemed to be everywhere-slung in trees, dug into anthills, crouching behind bushes...
...divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud, in contrast to the Palestinian Talmud, a similar but less authoritative Gemara done a century earlier by rabbis in Palestine. Although Jews since the 10th century have followed the Babylonian Talmud, the United Synagogue's translation will include passages from both...
Despite all the previous disclosures, more information about the operation continued to dribble out. Moyers revealed that before the first announcement was made on Oct. 5th, Johnson had brought Dwight Eisenhower to Washington to seek his advice on news treatment of a presidential illness. Dr. Hallenbeck subsequently disclosed that his medical team had held two rehearsals, primarily to perfect emergency procedures in case the President suffered heart difficulty while undergoing surgery...
Doug Hardin saved some face for the Crimson, taking first place by two seconds over the Bruins' Hammond Armour. Brown took three of the next four places to wrap up the win. Only Jim Strinchcomp (5th) broke up the Bruin monopoly...