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...pressed on Tay Ninh from the North. A Viet Cong battalion tried to storm the 25th Division's fire base "Buell." The U.S. ar tillerymen depressed their 105-mm. and 155-mm. tubes, firing pointblank "beehive" rounds of metal slivers that turned back the assault. In only one sector of the town were the Communists tem porarily successful, as they infiltrated almost two battalions into the southern fringes of Tay Ninh. In the ensuing battle, the allies were sorely tempted to use heavy weapons on dug-in Communist forces. Bomb-laden jets actually circled over the town...
...looks to tougher police to solve riots, one-third favors eradication of slum problems, and one-third wavers from side to side, supporting repressive measures on the one hand and poverty programs on the other. Right now, the balancing third may very well be moving toward the get-tough sector. "The American people," said Texas Governor John Connally, "are tired of dissension and turmoil and crisis. Wallace is gaining strength because he appeals to the dissatisfaction and frustration of a great many people...
...neither computers nor autos are manufactured in the city. Not the least of the obstacles to economic expansion is a critical shortage of workers. West Berlin's labor problem became acute when the Ulbricht government put up the Wall in 1961, thus depriving the city's Western sector of its 60,000 East German workers. Native labor, meanwhile, is difficult to keep at home, since the average hourly wage ($1.25) runs some 10% below that in West Germany. A city without suburbs-and hence commuters -West Berlin is also plagued by a housing shortage that often forces newcomers...
...efforts to enjoy better relations with other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...
...attacks on 40 cities were Giap's desperate gamble to draw allied troops away from the beleaguered U.S. Marine fortress at Khe Sanh. He still believes the onslaughts on Saigon are in the same pattern of desperation, even though Khe Sanh is now a largely forgotten sector. In a war that has defied every yardstick of progress, Westmoreland's measurements have diminished his estimates of his foe's capacities to the point of overoptimism...