Word: anti-personnel
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...Near Bien Hoa, a Viet Cong deserter was captured by a company of the 1st Infantry Division-the "Big Red One"-and led it straight to his buddies' bunker. Some bunker. The first U.S. charge was turned back by anti-personnel mines set off electrically. A second, then a third U.S. attack was driven back by withering rifle and machine-gun fire. Finally, the G.I.s called for a flamethrower. It was brought up by helicopter, and Private Wayne Beck of Rolla, Mo., strapped it on his back for a fourth assault. Beck got within 60 ft. of the bunker...
Many of the Communist dead at Kannack had been wounded earlier, probably during U.S. jet strikes on Viet Cong positions along Route 19 last month. Some had been nipped by the ''Lazy Dog," a new U.S. anti-personnel bomb that explodes 30 yds. above the ground, spewing tiny fléchettes (steel darts) over a block-square area. Among the dead was a young North Vietnamese lieutenant named Ngo. In his diary, he told of the arduous trip down the long Ho Chi Minh trail that began last November. It ended last week on the barbed wire before...
...enough just yet, but it was a considerable improvement. In eight strikes last week, U.S. F-100 Super Sabres, B57 Canberras and prop-driven Skyraiders plastered Viet Cong concentrations, leaving scores of guerrillas dead in their wakes. The planes dropped tons of newly developed anti-personnel bombs, including an aerial version of the artilleryman's cannister: a big bomb casing that opens after release to pour out a string of smaller bombs on a 100-ft. line...
...Caracas. There, for the past three weeks, the government has been mounting a small war against an estimated 100 to 300 guerrillas. Acting on a tip from loyal peasants, the government brought in combat troops to wipe out the Castroites. Venezuelan air force B-25s swept overhead, dropping anti-personnel bombs; 105-mm. artillery shelled the heavily wooded hillsides-a tactic more likely to produce a psychological than a military advantage. In 21 days of sniping and patrol-sized fire fights, seven Castroites were killed and 26 captured (the Venezuelan army did not report its own casualties). Then the guerrillas...
Israelis demanded that they withdraw, two Canadian members of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, Major George Flint and Major Marcel Breault, went forward to investigate. Both were injured when they touched off an anti-personnel mine left over from 1948 war days. Next day shooting broke out on a nearby hillside where the Israelis had set newcomers to terracing farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death...