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...Load per man for a two-day mission: Claymore mine and 240 rounds of ammo; four canteens of water and three meals of dried meat with rice; compass, flare gun, signal mirror, orange-and-cerise panel to signal for help; morphine for wounds, pep pills for drowsiness, codeine to kill coughs that might betray a position, antidysentery pills; tape to ward off leeches by closing off wrists and ankles of uniforms...
Ominous Ultimatum. No one knew whether Peking had actually instigated the initial flare-up, or whether it had been started by overzealous local Communists. Once the trouble began, however, Red China helped to keep it going. The British chargé d'affaires in Peking was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for a dressing-down that was severe even by Peking's hysterical standards. The British in Hong Kong, charged Red China, were committing "barbarous fascist atrocities," and were in collusion with the "U.S. imperialists" to escalate the war in Viet...
...them were wounded at least twice. Castan, belatedly armed with Kirby's .357 Magnum pistol, disappeared into the man-high elephant grass and was gunned down. His film of the doomed platoon was found days later on a dead Red. Kirby, who was carrying only a flare pistol, escaped by blasting a skirmisher between the eyes with his last flare. One of his buddies survived by playing dead. It was not surprising that the deception fooled the enemy troops: a Red bullet had torn through his left ear and out his nose...
Fanning four through the first three innings, Peters seemed to be on his way to his seventh win of the season, but instead ended up dropping his third decision. His wildness started to flare up in the fourth, when, with one out, he walked Dartmouth's Bruce Smith and Paul Minkus. Smith was erased on a fielder's choice but pinch-hitter Dale Achenbach drilled a single to left field driving in Mikus. Indian pitcher Jim Shaw, who went all the way to win his fifth game of the year, helped his own cause with an opposite-field single past...
...rectangle covered with eyes and a huge lipsticked mouth, Eve succumbs to the tempters and is spirited away. Alone and frenzied, Adam circles the stage and, running full speed up a ramp, dives spectacularly headfirst through the mouth. The music becomes increasingly cacophonous and, as bolts of neon lightning flare overhead, there is a blinding flash and Adam dies. Eve clumsily drags him upstage and kneels, cradling his twisted, stumped body in one final, agonizing embrace...