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...Division-part of some 30,000 Red regulars operating in an area defended by 6,000 Marines. Nearly 100 mortar and rocket shells rained down on the leathernecks. Then, recalls Platoon Sergeant John E. Lewis, 22, "the enemy came across the paddies in waves like a herd of turtles." The battle raged for five hours. While the Marines on the ground fought at times hand to hand, F-4 Phantoms dropped napalm on the attackers. When the North Vietnamese finally broke off the battle and crept across the DMZ into the darkness, they left 140 dead behind. The Marines took...
Barbed Wire & Bren Guns. Before the new pacification program began, many a shifta tended his herd by day and turned terrorist at night. He was hard to catch because he kept constantly on the move. Now thousands of Somalis have been shunted into manyat-ta (protected villages), a safe distance from the Somalia border. Such tribes as the Turkanas and the Boran, which have been nomadic for centuries, have been settled along with them in rows of dome-shaped huts that are protected from terrorists by barbed wire and Kenyan troops armed with Bren guns. At the same time, with...
GARRISON'S GORILLAS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A tough, cynical band of American convicts is pressed into service as behind-enemy-lines guerrillas in World War II. Ron Harper stars as Lieut. Garrison, the officer assigned to ride herd on the hoods. In the premiere, "The Big Con," the gang sets out to capture enemy plates used to print bogus U.S. currency...
...works, was showing signs of arteriosclerosis as the civil rights era of the '60s began. Changing its watchword from "improvement" to "equality," he set up a Washington bureau, separate from the local league office to bird dog federal funds, established five regional centers around the country to ride herd on local offices, and extended branches aggressively throughout...
...sooner have the lone stranger and his faithful Indian companion settled in than the villain appears. He is a pop-eyed homesteader (Nigel Green) who fears that the wild herd will spread disease among his prize cows. Accordingly, he releases Mills's new-found herds from their corrals. O'Brian fights back, and gets moral support from Adrienne Corri, a willowy nurse devoted, as all nurses in this kind of film, to everything cute and cuddly-baby animals, native children and the hero...