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TIME's otherwise brilliant article on General Paul Harkins and the Viet Nam war [May 11] overlooks a serious failing in our guerrilla warfare efforts-language. A U.S. Ranger in full combat gear seems far less like an intruder in a remote village if he can speak Vietnamese with its inhabitants. Yet even Special Forces troops in Viet Nam rarely receive more than a four-week cram course in local language and culture before beginning their assignments...
After a spark of spring excitement, were back to the dreary form. The of the spring phenoms--this year it the A's Manny Jimenez--dropped below 400 in his B.A.; Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris moved into gear--Mantle three homeruns in Sunday's double-header against Washington; and the bounced Cleveland out of first to the only possible question...
fter a spark of spring excitement. were back to the dreary form. The of the spring phenoms--this year it the A's Manny Jimenez--dropped 400 in his B.A.; Mickey Mantle and Maris moved into gear--Mantle three homeruns in Sunday's doubleder against Washington; and the bounced Cleveland out of first to the only possible question...
Barzani began last summer by leading his hotheads in raids on isolated Iraqi police outposts, recently shifted his rebellion into high gear after cutting down operations during the winter. Launching a major offensive at the end of March, the Kurds attacked army battalions at Dohuk and Zakho north of Mosul, leaving 50 dead and 150 wounded. When Kassem ordered air strikes near Sulaimaniya against Kurdish villages packed with women and children, the rebels retaliated by sacking some 200 Arab towns, raping the women inhabitants. In cities held by the government, the Kurds have embarked on S.A.O.-style assassination campaigns...
Just outside Chester, Conn., Batchelor suddenly found himself in a traffic crisis that even he had not dealt with in his thousand tries. His brakes failed. Instead of shifting into lower gear, pulling off the road to the right, grabbing for his emergency brake, or simply switching off the ignition and coasting to a stop, Driver Batchelor invited the undertaker. Recognizing what he thought was an open spot ahead, Batchelor swerved left at full speed-into the wrong lane and collision course with a bakery truck. But despite Batchelor's invitation, the undertaker declined. The 74-year-old cartoonist...