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...graduates have yet reached Viet Nam, Colonel Koob is certain that their training will pay off in combat. It has certainly paid off in enthusiasm. One Benning non-com claimed last week that recruits actually sprinted back from a ten-minute break to be in time for BB-gun drill...
...first meeting, the affair that followed, the marriage. Abrhám, a television repairman, takes her to the hospital, then goes on his rounds, gazing at the young with the fresh insight of a new father. In one sequence, as he watches schoolchildren make a game of an airraid drill, his mind-and the camera-recall the real thing, complete with screaming jets and exploding bombs...
...either too early or too late," he said. "Either we should have reacted right away, or we should wait and see what are the results of diplomacy." Since the choice was obviously to wait and see, when the first sirens sounded, most Tel Avi-vians thought it was a drill. A few dutifully ambled to shelters; others merely scanned the cloudless skies and shrugged...
This was no drill. In stunning predawn air strikes across the face of the Arab world, Israeli jets all but eliminated Arab airpower?and with it any chance of an Arab victory. Without air cover, tanks and infantry under the clear skies of the desert offered little more than target practice. In a few astonishing hours of incredibly accurate bombing and strafing, Israel erased an expensive decade of Russian military aid to the Arab world...
...Pleasant Tension. The temporary trainees are generally enthusiastic about basic training-perhaps because their "army" life is uncommonly pleasant. They do get lectures on the organization of the Self-Defense Force; they also get a minimum of marching and exercise with wooden bayonets. Their drill instructors are completely out of character. "We have to be sweet to these people," complained one sergeant. "After all, they're only civilians...