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...another Soviet defeat. Again in 1959, after Nikita Khrushchev launched his rocket-rattling "breakthrough" policy, the Russians began threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, thereby isolating and possibly dooming West Berlin. The threat to Berlin, repeated in 1960 and 1962, was defused by U.S. troop reinforcements. The building of the Wall in 1961 to choke off the flow of escapees was tacit admission of failure...
Last week U.S. troops tried the same sort of tactics-with far different equipment. As ground fighting flared up after a two-week lull, the Navy, Army and Air Force teamed with South Vietnamese regulars and staged a river assault reminiscent of Civil War engagements on the Lower Mississippi. They steamed off to battle in a "river assault flotilla" consisting of two converted World War II armored troop carriers and one "Monitor" gunboat that can slither along like water moccasins in shallow inlets and stand up to direct hits from recoilless rifles...
...Dawn broke over a formidable invasion fleet steaming slowly off the coast. Two cruisers and five destroyers turned broadside to begin the softening-up bombardment of the shore line in the heaviest concentration of naval gunfire since the Korean War, while the amphibious assault boats swarmed in. Waves of troop-packed helicopters rose from the deck of the carrier Okinawa. The amphibious troops and their tanks, tractors and guns came ashore, meeting with little resistance. For the heliborne assault forces, it was another story...
...hamlets, was crippled by severe organizational snafus. This year the Allies have launched a new effort to make the program work, as evidenced by the appointment two weeks ago of General William Westmoreland to take overall control of the pacification effort. The move will enable the U.S. to coordinate troop movements so that its forces can both fight the enemy and help give protection to the pacification workers, who perform such vital tasks as well digging and road and school construction. So seriously do the Viet Cong take the new effort that they now promise that any Communist who kills...
...size and speed.* Within six months, work was underway on her even bigger sister ship, the 83,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, whose maiden trip to New York in 1940, coming as it did after the outbreak of World War II, was shrouded in secrecy. The Queens served as troop ships throughout the war, eluding German submarines and planes to carry as many as 15,000 jam-packed G.l.s on a single voyage...