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...from Congress. After two weeks of debate, the Senate passed a $4.5 billion supplemental appropriation bill for the war in Viet Nam-and battled down an attempt by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark to tack on an amendment demanding that the U.S. either declare war or freeze troop levels in the South at 500,000 (nearly 415,000 are already there). Convinced that Clark's rider would be defeated so decisively that the vote would be interpreted by U.S. hawks as a blank check for unlimited escalation, Mansfield performed some fancy legislative footwork. He offered a meaningless...
...progress. Moving into the "Twin-River Complex" of Chuong Thien province, a battalion of South Vietnamese infantrymen walked into a trap. One company was hit as its American-piloted helicopters put down in the paddy-and-palmetto plains between the Nuoc Trong and Cai Lon rivers. Four "slicks" (troop-carrying choppers) were shot out of the sky by Chinese-built 7.9-mm. antiaircraft cannons; another four "gunships" (helicopters carrying rockets and machine guns for close support) dropped like stones. Moments later, a Medevac chopper was downed-the ninth helicopter to fall in as many minutes. Pinned down behind low paddyfield...
...Matter of $50,000. Baker was one of nine defense witnesses. Glen S. Troop, an S & L industry lobbyist and former Baker crony, related, at Bittman's prodding, that the idea to raise the disputed campaign contributions had been Baker's-not, as Bobby had testified previously, a West Coast S & L executive's. More helpful was T. Edward Morris Jr., an official of Washington's National Savings & Trust Co., who said that Kerr had made visits to his safe-deposit box, number G-302, on Oct. 22 and Nov. 5, 1962-dates on which Baker...
Calling a Bluff. From evidence of excessive wear on the ball bearings of Chinese trains coming into Hong Kong, combined with several other signs of unusual activity, U.S. watchers in 1962 were able to detect large-scale troop movements, reflecting Peking's fears of a Nationalist invasion. The U.S., through its ambassador in Warsaw, was able to assure the Communists that it would not support any such move by Taiwan, thus forestalled a potentially explosive confrontation...
...whether" does not even arise. Unlike his World War II or Korean predecessor, he has known all his life that he must serve a military tour of duty, indeed has planned it along with college, marriage and choice of vocation. From the moment he arrives (usually aboard a comfortable troop ship), through his bivouac experience (under conditions less arduous than most Stateside weekend hunting camps), to combat itself (as intense as any in history, but brief), he is supported by the best that his country can offer-even though it is to fight a mean and dirty...