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...pilots in tiny FAC planes hovered continually over the battlefield to locate the more easily indentifiable targets. To coordinate all the activities, an ABCCC (Airborne Command and Control Center) was kept in the sky high over Khe Sanh at all times. It was a C-130 Herky Bird packed with the latest electronic gear, which enabled the Air Force colonel on board to talk with Marines on the ground, pilots in the surrounding sky and his own superiors in Saigon...
Japan has long-range plans to redevelop most of the islands to their prewar farming and fishing levels. Iwo Jima, for one, will take a lot of patient cultivation. After 23 years, it still remains a desolate battlefield, where hulks of landing craft and shell casings jut from the black volcanic sand. Farther inland, in tunnels and caves, lie the bones of thousands of Japanese soldiers, which the Japanese hope to send home. And hidden like deadly thorns among the island's thick green vines, an arsenal of mines and shells still awaits the invader's incautious footsteps...
...these new commandos, who infiltrate Israel in ever greater numbers for ever more damaging raids that are sometimes held only hours apart. They come from all parts of the Arab world, belong to several groups and are variously equipped-but they are united in their determination to make a battlefield of Israel. TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes spent much of the past two weeks examining the terrorists and their goals. His report...
...which fires a smaller bullet and has an unfortunate tendency to jam. Though the AK-47 is heavier and heats up faster than the M16, U.S. combat troopers sometimes pay it the ultimate compliment by picking it up and using it themselves when they find one on a battlefield...
Viet Nam's northernmost corps, unwilling host to some 55,000 North Vietnamese invaders, is less a pacification prospect than an open battlefield. It was there that the 24-day battle for Hue took place, the most determined of the Communists' 35 attacks on South Vietnamese cities. Some 5,350 civilians were killed in all, including 4,100 in Hué; another 4,500 were seriously injured. The existing refugee ranks of 250,000 were swelled by an additional 107,000, some 90,000 of these from Hue alone-out of the city's pre-Tet population...