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...corporation aimed at "stimulating a variety of projects for the benefit of the community," Brooks wrote in the Cambridge Chronicle-Sun. "The private sector's response to the community problems cannot be based on good intentions alone...
...engineering during such McNamaran renovations as the MBT battle tank, the C5A air transport, and the Minuteman II ballistic missile. The current Deputy Secretary, Paul Nitze, 60, is a capable aide but perhaps too old. Johnson might also reach far afield for a successor, tapping such a respected private-sector servant as Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 54, board chairman of Litton Industries and one of the original World War II whiz kids...
...wartime present in Loc Ninh was embodied in four understrength Vietnamese irregular force companies and an American Special Forces unit, both of which were assigned to guard the town's airstrip and the district sub-sector headquarters, a rambling set of old French buildings and bunkers ringed by concertina wire and crowned by an improbable, rickety observation tower. Down the airstrip from the headquarters (see map) was an only slightly more substantial, diamond-shaped Special Forces camp, its walls made of logs and earthworks like something out of the old American West. To the Viet Cong's main...
...Viet Cong struck just after midnight one night last week, pouring a rain of rocket and mortar rounds on the Special Forces camp and on the sub-sector compound. Part of their 273rd Regiment roared into the undefended town itself, took it over and used its dispensary to treat Viet Cong wounded. At the same time, other elements of the 273rd attacked the subsector compound from the north and west, filtering through the gloom of the rubber trees and throwing themselves against the guns of the 105 men inside...
With no assist from the psychedelic sector, the Pentagon and environs last week looked nightmarish indeed. Workers had to use steam to scrub the steps and walls leading to the entrance of the Mall-and even that failed to erase the graffiti that demonstrators had smeared on with ineradicable black plastic paint. Some of the protesters-who numbered 30,000 to 35,000 according to a Naval Air Intelligence count-left more personal souvenirs on the Mall. "You should see what we found out there," said one worker. "Nothing but bras and panties. You never saw so many." The only...