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...most decorated units in the French army: the Foreign Legion's Deuxième REP (Second Foreign Parachute Regiment), whose history goes back to 1948, when, as the Second Foreign Parachute Battalion, it was sent to Cambodia to maintain internal security. In 1954, as Viet Minh guerrillas tightened their siege of the French base at Dien Bien Phu, 700 members of the battalion were dropped into the camp at night as last-minute reinforcements. Although the French were eventually defeated, the legionnaires fought heroically...
Were there other questions worth asking in that turbid decade-about wars, revolutions, anything more dramatic than a lunar hemline? There were, but few seem interested in them now. The frenetic world of '60s sex and drugs makes for a kickier nightmare than Viet Nam or Watts or Kent State. It offers an escape into Hollywood melodrama, but with the frisson of real names and familiar faces. How else to explain the post-mortem celebrity of Edie Sedgwick? Once a footnote in any pop history of the decade, she is now the summer's hot number. Edie (Knopf...
...glad to see from your story on CBS and its documentary on Viet Nam [July 26] that the press is being held accountable for its actions. Better yet, the investigation has come from within its own ranks. American journalism lives in a world of freedom, protected by the Constitution and supported by its own Government. Please don't abuse the First Amendment. Give us objectivity and accuracy...
...appreciate CBS for charging in its program The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception that Pentagon Hero William Westmoreland knowingly underestimated the strength of enemy forces. Prior to the 1968 Tet offensive, I could not go on a patrol without seeing numerous North Vietnamese troops. As those who were on the scene can attest, the number of encounters with skilled North Vietnamese fighting men increased greatly between mid-1966 and Tet. But what does a foot soldier know...
...Vice President recalls in chilling clarity the bare arm of Roy Benavidez, belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor last year for heroism in Viet Nam. In Texas last week the former sergeant told him the scar came from a Vietnamese bayonet thrust...