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...Lone Challenge...
Pleasant Valley Country Club is the lone New England golf course where the PGA tour makes an annual stop. Last July, a rookie by the name of Victor Regelado sank a birdie putt on the eighteenth hole to defeat Tom Weiskopf and capture his first professional...
...GOVERNMENT PRODUCED evidence to support Jacobsen's version of the time and place of the meetings. Connally admitted both that Jacobsen had offered him the money and that he had persuaded President Nixon to push for a raise in the Price Supports shift. Jacobsen was Connally's lone accuser, and hardly a credible one: when he turned state's evidence, he was deeply in debt and his wife was seriously ill. Connally's lawyer forced Jacobsen to admit that he had received $15,000 from AMPI but couldn't recall giving Connally the last $5,000, and showed that Jacobsen...
...attackers. At week's end, ARVN forces faced considerable pressure from an enemy bent on taking the provincial capital of Xuan Loc east of Saigon and threatening to cut links to the Mekong Delta southwest of the city. On the political front, there was no significant development. A lone, enraged pilot tried to kill Thieu, but there was no evidence that the President was ready to step down-or that the legion of his political opponents could agree on a successor. Meanwhile, for countless thousands of Vietnamese, as well as for the estimated 5,000 Americans still...
...becoming empty. Even now, with North Vietnamese divisions only an hour's drive away, no spirit of support or sacrifice has been summoned from the capital itself. It has not offered blood, money or even passion. No one has bothered to rally the people; there is a lone loudspeaker in the main square, but its scratchy, martial music is largely ignored. A high school teacher explained: "We Vietnamese, we know the verdict. Now we are awaiting the sentence of heaven...