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Less than 24 hours later, the city's fragile cease-fire erupted in the bloodiest fighting since the first days of the eight-week-old war. At 8 a.m., a U.S. 82nd Airborne noncom was inspecting weapons along the international corridor when a bullet plowed into his buttocks. From Colonel Caamaño's rebel positions in downtown Santo Domingo, a stream of rifle fire laced into the troops of the OAS Inter-American Peace Force. For half an hour it went on without a reply. Another paratrooper got it in the neck. At last, the order...
...launch was a solid success - a good, clean lift-off galvanized by 2.4 million Ibs. of thrust from twin solid-fuel boosters. The Titan IIIC resembled three huge bullet-nosed flashlights standing side by side. The 127-ft. center rocket was a souped-up version of the liquid-fueled Titan II that boosted Gemini astronauts on two successful shots. Strapped on to each side were two 85-ft. rockets, each one containing five 39-ton solid-fuel segments stacked one on top of the other. Within three-tenths of a second of ignition, the two solid-fuel boosters reached their...
...below," says he, "and you can't see anything." Over the past year, Chau has lost only two boats, five men killed and eight wounded. By contrast, in a recent afternoon Chau's guns killed 33 Viet Cong. Chau himself took a bullet through the leg. He was back from the hospital in a week, on crutches and ready for action...
Last week, at the National Catholic Eucharistic Congress in Pisa-where Galileo, according to legend, dropped a cannonball and a bullet from the leaning tower to prove that objects of different weights fall with the same velocity-Pope Paul VI formally praised Galileo, along with Dante and Michelangelo, as "great spirits" of "immortal memory...
...catharsis. Why should Nazemann, who has been living in New York for twenty years, exposed to the same influences, suddenly wake up? Why should he be able to recall traumas from repression when anyone else would need an analyst? The death of a Puerto Rican boy who intercepts a bullet meant for Nazemann seems far too circumstantial. Also questionable is Lumet's use of stomach-turners, such as the sequence where Nazemann jabs a long pin through his hand...