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Outgunned in open combat, the Viet Cong reverted to type, mortaring a number of isolated outposts and headquarters. For the second time in three weeks, guerrillas hit the Long Binh ammunition dump 13 miles north of Saigon. Under cover of mortar fire, Viet Cong penetrated the depot's perimeter, detonated a satchel charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also...
...nails to build 200 pallets. Another army company built the pallets for Feddersen, keeping 100 of them as payment. Feddersen then gave his 100 to the warehouse in exchange for two mechanics. The mechanics repaired 16 burnt-out Seabee trucks, which Feddersen then turned over to another supply depot in exchange for the services of two large semitrailers (from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. every day for six months...
When Nurse Susan Stearly, 28, drove her '64 Valiant into the southern Colorado town of Trinidad, she knew that she was taking on a tough case. Trinidad, once a covered-wagon depot and later a bustling coal-mining center, has become the core of a "depressed area," and Nurse Stearly was there to deal with one of its most depressing problems: the appalling lack of medical care for thousands of indigents, and especially for their children. In all of the 4,800 square miles of Las Animas County, of which Trinidad is the seat, there are just seven doctors...
...Buck Rogers-style Army "jet-flying belt" that is expected to transport a soldier over the treetops at 60 m.p.h. for as far as ten miles. Weighing a total of only some 150 Ibs., propelled by a Lilliputian fanjet engine and fed by a back-riding fuel depot of seven to ten gallons of kerosene, the new jet is aimed at superseding a current experimental backpack that is operated by rocket thrust and has a range of only 860 ft. Though it will be a year before the new system can be proved feasible, scientists at Bell Aerosystems Co., which...
Last week Navy jets from the carrier Hancock went back to hit again Haiphong's major oil depot, a repeat of the raid that fortnight ago signaled significant new pressures on the enemy. At the time, reconnaissance indicated that 80% of the targets had been destroyed. When the roiling smoke cleared, the damage turned out to be closer to 30% . So the Navy went back, and for good measure, Navy and Air Force planes at week's end hit fuel dumps 35 miles north of Hanoi and 43 miles south east of Vinh. En route, Skyhawks and Intruders...