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...series of fulminating fire fights after the Reds had ambushed two of its companies. B-52 bombers from Guam plastered the Red positions with pinpoint accuracy, while the men of the 4th fought their way out of the hole. All told, it was one of the war's bloodiest weeks to date, and the blood was predominantly from the other side...
...East last week resounded with the crash of terrorist bombs, the blows of murder and the rising wails of Arab leaders, who seemed to have completely abandoned their once-vaunted drive for unity. After a period of lull, the Yemen war has heated up again, but this time the bloodiest fighting is not between royalist and republican; it is among the republicans themselves, who control the southern third of the country (including the capital of San'a) with the help of Nasser's 47,000-man occupation army. Pro-republican tribesmen, who were originally glad of Nasser...
When satire gets that close to reality, it loses much of its humor. Statistics were still piling up as the 1966 hunting season drew to a close last week, but it already seemed likely to be one of the bloodiest in history. Texas alone reported more than 75 shooting accidents and 24 fatalities; Michigan counted twelve dead, Maine five, Colorado five, Georgia four. "We've had people mistaken for everything from birds to porcupines," complained Michigan's conservation director, and a Texas wildlife official warned: "Sure, it's fun to get out in the woods...
...just a year ago, in the Central Highlands valley of la Drang near Cambodia, that infiltrated North Vietnamese regulars for the first time chose to engage a U.S. unit headon. The result was not only the war's bloodiest battle and a stunning defeat for the Communists, who suffered 2,000 dead, but the beginning of a new phase in the war. Since then, despite heavy bombing of the North and a steady buildup of U.S. troops to interdict the southward flow of troops, infiltration has continued unabated, providing the chief source of new Communist manpower to keep...
...Donald Ford develop a delightfully nasty notion: why,not pit the most famous Victorian detective against the most notorious Victorian criminal-lack the Ripper. The confrontation contains some bloody-awful picture possibilities, and Director James Hill (Born Free) has the wit to explode them as he exploits them. The bloodiest, of course, are presented by those scenes in which the Ripper, swathed in the sort of corpse-grey fog the last century called a "London particular," glides up to a luckless trollop, and with a knife at least as big as the minute hand on Big Ben opens the poor...