Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLOUD OVER HIROSHIMA, by Burt Hirschfeld (Julian Messner; $3.95). The story of the atomic bomb, told with accuracy and excitement...
...upper arm. Tran Van Lam, 13, will get artificial legs. Nguyen Thi Thuy, 7, has her left arm temporarily attached to her face so that its skin may provide her with new lips to replace those blown away. Nguyen Van Ba, 14, no longer has testes, but a bomb-blasted urethra has been repaired...
...cruelty, with a demonic amalgam of bloodshed and violence that was not equaled until Bonnie and Clyde. Stanley Kubrick's Lolita treated the forbidden subject of nymphet-mania with cool humor; his Dr. Strangelove demonstrated that the biliousness of black comedy was as American as the H-bomb. John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate was a flawed murder drama that explored the mind of a brainwashed assassin with psychological depth and technical brilliance...
With the burst of the misplaced bomb, the real ordeal of the battalion began. Eight of its 16 line officers had been killed, the other eight wounded. Only two of its three company commanders were alive. Only one medic had survived to treat the wounded, who lay bleeding and covered with grime on all sides, moaning for lack of morphine. Rescue and relief helicopters tried to reach the battalion, but were driven off by enemy rocket and machine-gun fire; twelve helicopters went down in the five days of fighting...
...infiltrators are finding their old southbound routes to be increasingly hazardous traveling. The DMZ and the South China Sea coast have been virtually sealed off, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail's Laotian branch is being steadily pounded from the air. That leaves only Cambodia as a relatively bomb-free route into South Viet Nam. This kind of end run is hardly new to the Communists, who have often used Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutral kingdom as a gateway and a sanctuary. But the rising intensity of the war is causing them to use Cambodia more and more...