Word: armored
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Rats & Sweet Potatoes. Most disastrous of Sukarno's programs has been his attempt to "crush Malaysia." The neighboring nation has proved as undentable as armor plate: of 256 Indonesian-trained saboteurs, terrorists and guerrillas landed over the past three months, 47 were killed and 187 captured. Last week, when Sukarno issued his customary order to "intensify" the campaign, 20 more guerrillas sailed off by sampan to Malaya and Singapore -and were soon being hotly pursued by alert British-led troops and citizens, who can collect $300 for every interloper captured. Still, Indonesia's flourishing Communist Party...
...ARMOR. A new vest of overlapping plastic plates covers all vital body areas and weighs only 4 Ibs. It protects against all thrown objects, grenade and mortar fragments, and bullets moving slower than 1,000 ft. per sec. (which includes a wide variety of small-arms fire from anything but point-blank distance). Men who wear it, says Colonel Applegate, are much more willing to "close": they will perform countermob duties more aggressively...
...been an ambush, with the phony cemetery as a lure. Quickly Call launched the South Vietnamese battalions, supported by five tanks and 14 armored personnel carriers against the Viet Cong defense positions. The Reds proved to be dug into three lines consisting of foxholes, dugouts and bunkers with escape tunnels. While the armor made a frontal assault, 15 helicopters and T-28s raked the Reds with ma chine guns, rockets and flaming napalm...
Call's armor broke through two of the Viet Cong lines and might well have carried the final one. But most of the tanks had to retire when they ran out of .50-cal. ammunition. The Viet Cong began moving around each flank, and the order came for government troops to disengage. Although the Reds remained in control of the field of battle, the cost had been catastrophic. The South Vietnamese lost only five dead and 29 wounded. Estimates of Viet Cong casualties were over 200. Though U.S. Viet Nam military chief Lieut. General William Westmoreland flew in especially...
...natural grace and integrity of the truly simple man, but often seems to have achieved something closer to the contrived spontaneity of the method actor. The exactions of pride were made tolerable by an equally vast joviality-a humor that could be gentle or sardonic, and served as mask, armor and weapon of his severe stoicism...