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...place to hit the enemy off-balance as he prepared his campaigns for the coming monsoon, and Air Cav Commander Major General Harry W. O. Kinnard had given his Flying Horsemen orders to do just that in Operation Lincoln. But the enemy was nowhere to be found. Then a bullet pinged into a chopper from below. Nosing down like angry hornets, a swarm of Hueys carrying a 32-man reconnaissance platoon spotted three Viet Cong on the run, landed near by in the hope of capturing them. They had indeed discovered the enemy -a full battalion of entrenched Red troops...
Ivanov is also a man driven to suicide, and suicide is inexplicable without desperation and savagery. An excess of underplaying, or more charitably, a style of ironic detachment, cannot explain a man's putting a bullet through his head...
...Ghanaians deeply resented his government's blatant corruption. At least five attempts have been made to assassinate him. Nkrumah's answer was to crack down even further, increase his security guard-and to retreat behind the four walls of his palace. He reportedly took to wearing a bullet-proof vest, nervously kept five bullet-proof Rolls-Royces ready to carry him around Accra, waiting until the last minute to choose the one he would ride...
...close quarters), wear leather gloves and kneepads, and are connected to the surface by half a mile of wire that runs to a battery-powered headset. Taped to their ankles are smoke grenades, for use when the Tunnel Rats are ready to emerge, and want to avoid a bullet from a startled American's rifle. Another necessity: an aerosol bomb to attack the half-inch "fire ants" that often infest the tunnels...
...country." But Congress can hardly fault the bureau for being profligate when it comes to its own staff. Budget Director Schultze, a former University of Maryland economist, has as his official limousine a 1963 Pontiac that the Internal Revenue Service seized from a Southern bootlegger; it still has a bullet hole in a rear hubcap. The bureau is so economically staffed that it has only 50 men working on the Defense Department's $60 billion budget-or more than $1 billion for each man to handle...