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Popular history tells us that American troops were caught napping when North Vietnam launched the Tet offensive. Yet while Vietnam celebrated its new year, at least one top U.S. Army officer was practically lying in wait. General Fred Weyand couldn't stop American officials in Saigon from throwing a party on Tet's Eve, replete with Chinese firecrackers and a lawn band. Convinced of an imminent strike, however, Weyand kept his troops close to Saigon, and officers in his camp placed bets on the timing. All wagered that the strike would start between midnight...
...Richard Nixon was going to win in a landslide anyway. Rather than fire all those responsible for the break-in, Nixon instead paid the five arrested burglars hush money from an illegal White House slush fund; urged the CIA to close down the FBI investigation; told his subordinates to lie to investigators; discussed a variety of illegal cover-up plans in the Oval Office, knowing a tape recorder was already in operation there; fired the special prosecutor for the case who had been hired by his Justice Department; defied court orders to turn over the tapes; and then, faced with...
...Iraqis left this place in a hurry, too. Bedsheets are still twisted in the sleeping quarters. Boots lie on the floor, and papers are strewn across airfield offices. But the unfriendly forces haven't gone far. On Thursday, scores were discovered huddled in underground tunnels, hoping to be found by American and not Iraqi forces. Firefights routinely break out on the front lines, a few miles to the north...
...trail American forces into Iraq. This melancholy is rooted in the apparent hopelessness of the environment. Anything more then a cursory glimpse around reveals that the Iraqi people, at least those living in this region, are completely beaten. Signs of physical decay and the population's broken spirits lie everywhere...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service picked up a baby-faced young man. Guti?rrez claimed he was only 16 and eligible for asylum. The usually unbending INS believed him and let him stay. It had been a lie, but it was hardly the most extreme thing Gutierrez had done in his life. He had been born in Guatemala in 1974 but his parents died while he was very young during the country?s brutal civil war. His sister Engracia, just four years his senior, was his only remaining family and he lived on the streets of the capital, Guatemala City...