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...Viet Cong prisoners over a four-day period. In both North and South, the U.S. captives would be loaded aboard medical-evacuation planes for Clark Air Base in the dusty Luzon plain of the Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from the instant of their arrival. The exercise was worthy of a major offensive, except that now the object...
...Syria over the status of the Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan, at a meeting of the Arab League Defense Council. As long as the fedayeen are kept in check, Hussein would agree to the re-establishment of the Eastern Front, a largely meaningless unification of Arab armies under Egyptian command on Israel's border with Jordan. The King also got Syria and Egypt to agree that neither would undercut him if he suggested in Washington that the Arabs might finally recognize Israel in return for their occupied territories...
Tiger. After chafing for four months at desk jobs, Herbert got what he had always longed for-the command of a battalion. He quickly turned it into a model for the entire brigade. Most commanders in Viet Nam watched the action from helicopters-a form of vertical absenteeism. Herbert led his men on the ground, right down into enemy bunkers. Fellow officers often relied upon artillery strikes to do the killing and the grunts to do the counting after death. Partly as a result, civilian dead were regularly recorded as killed Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. Herbert trained...
Then suddenly a terrible change set in. One minute Herbert was a hero about to be put up for a Distinguished Service Cross. The next, he was stripped of his field command, packed off to a Stateside desk job, and harassed and humiliated until he was forced to retire...
Died. Yaakov Dori, 73, leader of the Israeli army that fought for independence in 1948; after a stroke; in Haifa. A refugee from the pogroms of Russia, Dori immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1905, later joined the Jewish Legion serving under British army command in World War I. Discharged in 1921 for fighting Arabs without British approval, he joined the Haganah, an underground Zionist force, and by 1939 had become its commanding officer. When independence was proclaimed in 1948, the Haganah became Israel's official defense force and Dori its first chief of staff...