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...then, do they come? Israel Schindler, 27, secretary of Karnei Shomron, points to a nearby hillock and notes that from it Jordanian artillery gunners used to fire on Israelis living in Tel Aviv twelve miles away. By settling this region, he insists, Israelis are preventing the enemy guns from returning to that hillock. Giora Reuveny, 30, is a member of Tomer, a budding Jewish settlement in the sunny Jordan Valley; proudly surveying his six acres of corn, tomatoes and eggplants, he admits to the appeal of the good life at Tomer. Ruth Berchlingue, 46, a French-born Jew, came...
Despite such feats, the likelihood is that the Green Berets will hardly recognize themselves-or, for that matter, their surroundings or their enemy-in John Wayne's version. In the movie, the camp's single .50-cal. machine gun sits splendidly unprotected on a little hillock and the commanders direct the battle from a fragile watchtower that the Communists somehow manage to miss to the last; in reality, Green Beret camps are heavily bunkered, often reinforced with cement. In the movie, an evening's relaxation for Special Forces officers involves an outing to a Miami-style club...
...taken the trouble to take a good look at them." Nor were casual visitors to blame. Most menhirs were buried deep in the maquis (brush), some of them face-down or savagely hacked into two or three pieces. Describing his most important find, a 160-ft. hillock with 17 sculptured menhirs at Filitosa, he says: "It was an amazonian jungle. We crawled up it like foxes. Suddenly, I found myself nose to nose with a prehistoric statue. Imagine the suspense...
This book, though at times tedious, heaps a hillock of fresh laurels on Balzac's grave. André Maurois, an old hand at literary biographies (Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Dumas, Hugo, Proust), disavows that intention. "This is a life of Balzac, not a critical study," he says in a foreword and, having passed his 80th year, announces that it is the last biography he will write. Nevertheless, Prometheus is strewn with the kind of judgments that a disciple makes at the feet of the master: "A super-novelist," "the greatest novelist of the century." Balzac's very faults become...
Camp Kannack stands on the crest of a gentle hillock near the midfield stripe of South Viet Nam, balanced like a football waiting for the kickoff. From the Kannack compound and its adjacent dirt airstrip, some 400 American and montagnard defenders oversee dense jungle, slippery slopes and the crumpled folds of ravines ideally suited for enemy mortar attack. A single ribbon of road leads south toward embattled Route 19, the east-west highway where government convoys are frequent prey for Viet Cong ambushes. Last week the Communists hit Kannack...