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Imperfect Circle. Five days later, 30 miles south of Saigon, a paratroop battalion surprised and gamely engaged Viet Cong Battalion 514, which a year ago inflicted a major defeat on the government in the notorious battle of Apbac. Now grown from 250 to possibly 600 men, Battalion 514 stopped the paratroopers with machine-gun fire. Out went a call for help, but it was slow to arrive. Armed American helicopters on stand-by duty 20 minutes away in Saigon were not called in by the Vietnamese until three hours after the initial contact...
Finally, the Viet Cong were virtually surrounded by the original paratroop unit, a second paratroop battalion, infantry and civil guardsmen, and were being pounded by air and artillery that killed or wounded an estimated 100 Reds. But the second paratroop battalion, ordered to move in and block a Viet Cong retreat, timidly stood off, leaving great gaps through which the bulk of the Reds escaped at dusk...
...taken alive, Lacerda supposedly was to be bundled aboard a plane at Rio's International Galeao Airport and flown to a secret destination. The artillery officer refused, saying that he needed a written order from his commander. Pinheiro and Mafra next went to the commander of a paratroop regiment, then to a commander of an engineer company, who finally consented...
...last Cassius got down to business -so to speak. With his brother Rudolph Valentino Clay, he jogged around London, wearing a sweat suit and paratroop boots, sparred a few desultory rounds, and gave away postcard-size pictures of himself. "Had five, ten thou sand of these printed," Clay explained. Spotting a pretty Negro girl in a crowd, Cassius whistled softly and whispered to friend Ronald King: "Go talk to her, man. That's the cutest thing I've seen since I've been here...
...rebel junta that plotted Kassem's overthrow was apparently made up of captains and lieutenants, except for its leader, ex-Paratroop Colonel Abdul Mustafa. But the man they put forward as their front man came as a shock to Kassem, fighting for his life inside the battered Defense Ministry. The junta named as its new rebel head of state Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, 41, long Kassem's closest friend and most loyal disciple, and alive only because Kassem commuted his 1959 death sentence...