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Hoeppner, who tied the Cornell game in overtime last month with a shot just inside the right post, aimed at the same spot. But Bill Hager, substituting in the goal for co-captain Bob Bernius, blocked the ball with a dive, and beat Harvard's Bill Schaefer to the rebound...
...shot hit the right post and bounded into the net, past the goalie's dive...
...Binh Dinh. Since few any longer do, the division is using its airpower to harass the Viet Cong in other novel ways. One is Operation Snatch, which is employed whenever a roving Air Cav chopper spots a suspiciously large group of people in the countryside. The Cavalrymen immediately dive down to pick up a few suspects for questioning, a tactic that discourages the Viet Cong from moving around amid the protective coloration of groups of harvesters or peasants on their way to market...
...across the Ben Hai River separating the two Viet Nams. Then comes the quavering whistle of the shell tearing through the air, followed quickly by the final sharp bang of its explosion on impact. The whole process takes about eight seconds, giving the Marines time to dive for cover, though the North Vietnamese have an ominous new gun of unknown make that gives only a one-second warning. The men of Gio Linh have developed acute ears for descending shells, but the alert is usually given first by Hardcore, their pet Vietnamese mongrel dog. When Hardcore starts whining and heading...
...when they refused to line up for Israeli inspections. "Nothing like that has happened yet," a Gaza lawyer said with a distinct lack of optimism. Everywhere building showed some signs of the past conflict; one of the hotels where I stopped had taken a direct hit form an Israeli dive bomber-everyone had been shaken by the ferocity of the Israeli fire-power. At almost every major intersection burnt-out tanks faced each other, frozen for immortality in their last pugnacious stance. Amusingly enough both the Israeli and the Egyptian tanks were identical--except for the markings--both "Made...