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...Phantom jet and two spotter planes and heavily damaging five other craft. But there were no allied deaths, and within hours the runways were repaired and the base fully operative again. In another attack, some 5,000 Communists tried to overrun two U.S. forward positions in the Que Son Valley south of Danang. They were thrown back in two days of heavy fighting, losing nearly 400 dead. Altogether, by week's end the Communists had sacrificed an estimated 2,000 men without gaining a significant victory...
...breaks-except with tradition. The participants: the twelve-member New York Pro Musica ensemble, whose long-time specialty has been little-known medieval and Renaissance music; the five-man Circus Maximus, a Manhattan-based rock group; a lighting crew from the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discothèque; and Electronic Composer Morton Subotnick, a professor at New York University...
...located in the Saigon area. Some of the cabarets and dance halls will undoubtedly be permitted to keep their doors open. Some of the more than 100 houses of prostitution, now illegal, may even become legitimatized. If a bill proposed last week by Minister of Social Welfare Nguyen Phuc Que is passed by the Vietnamese Parliament, the government will open a special area for fun making on the outskirts of Saigon. All patrons, G.I. and Vietnamese alike, would pay an admission charge directly to the government, which would license all cabarets and girls. As Que conceives it, the proceeds could...
...Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, the two-month-long election lull ended last week in a hail of mortar shells that thudded down just after the company had dug in for the night near the town of Que Son, 30 miles south of Danang. The company commander radioed battalion headquarters that he had been jumped by a company of North Vietnamese regulars. It was nothing that he could not handle, he said. But he was dangerously mistaken. Facing his 100 leathernecks were some 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and they were primed for a fight. "Those people...
JOHN GLASSCO Foster, Que...