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...even though beefed-up for combat, were ill-prepared to take the beating of a drawn-out war in Viet Nam-and were kept too long. Many of the T-28s were flown 4,000 hours or more; a B-26 once returned riddled by 40 bullet holes, was back in the air two days later. When Viet Cong firepower increased, so did the stresses on the motley fleet's wings-already loaded down with armament-as pilots pulled up more abruptly from attack dives. Last week Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert conceded that "structural failure may have been...
...crash site searchers found a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum with six empty shells in its chambers. In the first hours of study, there was no way to tell whether both the pilot and copilot had been shot, or just one of the men, or whether it was bullet damage that had destroyed the mechanism operating the plane's control surfaces...
...crewmen, none was seriously hurt. A World War II baby flattop with seven Nazi U-boats to its credit, the New Orleans-based Card had arrived in Saigon with a load of new helicopters, had been scheduled to sail in five hours with a return cargo of bullet-riddled, scrapped "banana" transport choppers. Because of the Card's deep draft, her superstructure remained above water, and within hours she was being raised for repairs. While the incident was hardly grave, it gave further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only...
...others were gone. Two days later reinforcements killed his two henchmen a few miles away. But still no Sangre Negra. Back they went with dogs to search around the farmhouse. There he was, dead, in the jungle a thousand yards away, face down in a mudhole with bullet holes in his mouth and torso. Mortally wounded in the first fight, he had crawled into the brush...
...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...