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...doubled the size of its regular army to about 60 divisions of some 1 million men. With more than 2.6 million men under arms-many of them in a highly trained, combat-ready militia-Viet Nam has the third largest military force in the world.* Pulling most of its crack divisions out of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia, Hanoi has massed 250,000 to 300,000 troops along its frontier with China. Another invasion by Peking, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has warned, would lead to swift and humiliating defeat for the Chinese...
...three prep schools, Mike became a good enough football player to be offered an athletic scholarship at Arizona State, but he turned it down ("I played the game for fun"), tried a few courses at the University of Southern California, then took up speedboat racing. A crack-up a few years later tore his back muscles, dislocated both hips and persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late...
...happens, someone calls on the walkie talkie to tell him, and he drives like hell, pulls out a notebook, makes sure the names are spelled right, and then turns it into a brief for the Metro section, or maybe, if it's something powerful, a story that could crack the front page...
...incursion was carried out by elements of Viet Nam's crack 75th Division. It had no discernible military target. There were small probes along a section of the eastern border of Thailand stretching from Surin province in the north to Trat province in the south...
That afternoon, the Carters arrived in Venice under extremely tight security. Three weeks earlier, Italy's dreaded terrorists had warned the summiteers: "We of the Red Brigades are waiting for you." Accordingly, Venice seemed to be under siege. Bersaglieri (crack army marksmen) lined the runways of Marco Polo Airport...