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...Bullet for the President. Salazar himself has never visited Mozambique -a fact that most white Mozambicanos resent. But last week his puppet President, Rear Admiral Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomas, concluded a two-week swing through the country in an effort to prove that Lisbon really cares. From the Indian Ocean port of Lourenço Marques (where he reviewed 5,000 troops and 200 Alsatian, Doberman, boxer and Labrador guard dogs) to the villages of the Limpopo River Valley, the sprightly, 69-year-old President met with rousing receptions and blizzards of confetti. But for all the outward signs...
...killing effect of a rifle bullet depends on the energy it carries, and that energy increases with the square of the bullet's speed. The bullets of the .223-cal. M-16 make up for their lighter weight by having a muzzle velocity of 3,250 ft. per sec.-significantly more speed than the 2,800 ft. per sec. of the .30-cal. M-14. The cartridges are lighter, and so is the rifle itself. An M-16 with 120 rounds of ammo weighs only 9 Ibs., no more than an empty M-14. Its bullets...
...SLUG CARTRIDGE. For run-of-the-draft riflemen, whose aim is usually wide of the target, the Army is experimenting with cartridges containing two bullets, one packed behind the other. The front bullet flies true, but the rear bullet is deliberately made rough-ended so that it lags and drifts a little, approaching the target a foot or more to one side. The resulting shotgun effect is calculated to improve the score of a non-deadeye marksman...
Such fatalism suits Khanh well, for should he fail, his task could turn out to be a killing one-literally. He is constantly under guard against the danger that an assassin will try to put a bullet in him. Working a 17-hour day in his grey and white headquarters, his office watched over by a soldier with a Colt .45 and a ferocious ornamental stuffed tiger, Khanh has striven to launch reforms and breathe new fire into the war effort. He has got a trickle of additional government administrators into the countryside. Though a Buddhist, he is a moderate...
...have acted out his "paranoid delusions" if his mother, who doted on him, had not repeatedly told him of a dream she had when he was an infant, visualizing him carrying out "an act of brave but bloody violence in the name of the country." Thus, with one bullet, he was able to remove his two most hated rivals and secure his mother's love...