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...overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding his Snapper [antitank missile] to destroy a 50-ton tank has been refighting the Battle of Crécy." Indeed, for the first time since 1916, when the tank made its combat debut in the Battle of the Somme, a single infantryman armed with an antitank guided weapon was potentially an equal match for the armor-plated behemoth...
...electronic antidote may also be found for the new antitank missiles. One U.S. Army systems analyst insists that missiles will no more make the tank obsolete than the invention of the machine gun made the infantryman obsolete. The mechanized unit, which includes tanks, will still be needed to provide armies with speed, firepower and shock action on the ground. "The stakes of armored warfare have merely been raised," this analyst adds. "It will just be a lot more bloody than before...
...SAM7 Strela, a heat-seeking antiaircraft missile fired in clusters of eight to twelve from portable tubes or individually from the shoulder of an infantryman. It was effective against U.S. helicopters in Viet Nam until crews began firing flares to confuse...
Swanson saw Ben Tre first as an infantryman, nine months after the Tet offensive. The town had been partially destroyed, as an American major so memorably remarked, "in order to save it." Swanson returned for a second Viet Nam tour as an adviser in 1970 and dreamed up the idea of buying shrimp from Delta fishermen and reselling it in the lucrative Saigon market. After his discharge in July 1972, he put up $3,000 of his own money, talked $20,000 out of four Vietnamese partners, and went into business. Swanson expects a profit margin...
Died. Winthrop Rockefeller, 60, former Governor of Arkansas and second youngest member of the Rockefeller brotherhood that includes Nelson, Governor of New York, and David, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A Yale dropout, Rockefeller was an oilfield roustabout and Army infantryman before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually...