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...Others: Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh, who also authored a play, The Bamboo Dragon, which flopped in Paris...
...attacked. At another village, Sergeant Jim Stensgard, 21, was told that a Communist agent was stirring up trouble at night. Forbidden to do anything about it himself, Stensgard merely observed that the villagers outnumbered the agent. Next morning the Thais grabbed the agent and clubbed him senseless with bamboo sticks...
...with School. Armed with everything from bamboo poles to rifles, thousands of workers and students have clashed in bloody battles throughout Kwangtung province and the neighboring Kwangsi region. In the countryside, some peasants have torn up roads leading to their villages to keep out marauding bands of fighters. Repeatedly, during the past month, the railway from Nanning, Kwangsi's capital, to the North Vietnamese border, has been...
Changed Tactics. The strategist behind the siege is Colonel Tran Dinh Xu, the Communist commander for the capital district. At night, his rocketeers slip to within range of the city, often using, for the sake of speed, crude earthworks and bamboo racks rather than unwieldy launcher tubes to aim their whispering death on Saigon. Easily broken down into sections-a 2-lb. fuse, a 41-lb. warhead and a 59-lb. motor section-the rockets can be carried by porters, are quickly assembled and fired by a crew of only three men. The missiles are not notably precise...
...gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial stomach that would enable the people of underdeveloped lands to eat grass, and a hut-shrinking chemical "which penetrates the fibres of the bamboo, causing it, the hut, to strangle its occupants...