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...General William Childs Westmoreland, 51, directed the historic buildup, drew up the battle plans, and infused the 190,000 men under him with his own idealistic view of U.S. aims and responsibilities. He was the sinewy personification of the American fighting man in 1965 who, through the monsoon mud of nameless hamlets, amidst the swirling sand of seagirt enclaves, atop the jungled mountains of the Annamese Cordillera, served as the instrument of U.S. policy, quietly en during the terror and discomfort of a conflict that was not yet a war, on a battlefield that...
Ninth Circle. When he was not under fire, the U.S. fighting man was enduring living conditions that would have made Dante's ninth circle seem cozy. He was mired in mud when it rained, choked by dust when it did not. There were leeches and lice, poisonous vipers and venereal diseases, dengue, and a virulent strain of malaria that has defied preventives and resists cure. Temperatures hit 130° on the sandy beaches, 20° in the mountains. In the water-filled bunkers of Danang and Phan Rang, marines and paratroopers wrapped themselves in rubberized ponchos to grab...
Ground fighting continued as American paratroopers, units of New Zealanders, and South Vietnamese pursued Viet Cong forces through the mud of the Mekong Delta towards the Cambodian border...
...body, weakened by a lifetime of socially induced inactivity, was so feeble that it took him half an hour to cover less than 30 feet. When the villagers came running up the hill, they found Ahmad and the widow dead in bed and the beggar lying in the mud a few feet from...
...company bristling with restless energy, the Royal Danish Ballet is a stick in the mud when it comes to traveling abroad. In the 20 years since the end of World War II, it has visited the U.S. but four times. But when the Danes do come, it is an event that brings balletomanes flocking. In Manhattan last week, they broke all box-office records at the New York State Theater, grossed more than any other stage show on or off Broadway...