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With a command that embraces 10,440 sq. mi.-all five of the northernmost provinces that comprise I Corps -Walt had the task of stabilizing South Viet Nam's queasiest territory. The region was plagued by the country's most aggressive guerrillas, threatened with the massive cutting edge of well-armed North Vietnamese divisions and abroil with political dissidence. From the outset, Walt gave priority to winning over the civilians and holding the villages...
Inside the fence is a minute, mountainous country of 11,000 sq. mi. and 1,800,000 people, poor in living conditions, rich in anachronisms and completely alone in its bizarre comradeship with Red China, which began in 1961. That was the year that Russia broke with Albania because of Albania's support of Red China in the Moscow-Peking feud; Red China, in turn, quickly stepped in with a life-saving $125 million in credits. "Now," remarked an Italian businessman in the capital of Tirana, "the Chinese are here to stay, and stay, and stay." Fully...
...huts are shrines to their ancestors, their land a heritage to be revered. Yet 1.8 million of South Viet Nam's 13 million peasants have given up their homes because of either Viet Cong terrorism or the military demands of the war. Last week, in a 120-sq.-mi. area along the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Viet Nams, 20,000 more Vietnamese were turned into fugitives from...
...week turned into what one contestant aptly termed "a demolition derby." The general idea of ocean powerboat racing is to take a boat out into the deep, open her up to 50-60 m.p.h., and pray. The Bahamas 500 was designed as the granddaddy of them all-a 512-mi. circle around the islands from Grand Bahama, and all for $50,000 in prize money. It should have been $1,000,000, considering the carnage...
Conservatives won 82 seats on the council, as against 18 for the Laborites, who had previously held 64 seats. The council is a comparatively new body that governs a region containing almost 9,000,000 people within a 620-sq.-mi. area that stretches as far north as Enfield and as far south as Croydon...