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Into the Fire with Warrior McCoy KUT SIMON ROBINSON...
...South Africa Bureau Chief, currently traveling with the 1st Marine Division, there's a lot more hurrying up than waiting. a marine was shot and killed a few feet from Robinson last week during a fire fight in Kut. "That was the first time it happened to someone in our battalion," he says. "There were bullets whizzing across the hood of our humvee. I was, frankly, very scared." The stories, he says, almost write themselves. "You just have to survive to report them...
...censorship lifted early this month, Marlowe was free to travel throughout the country. She found striking scenes: women in black robes carrying groceries through miles of rubble, a rusting merchant navy docked next to palm groves. Some of her experiences bordered on the surreal. In the southeastern city of Kut, the provincial governor handed her a white album filled with photographs of allied bomb damage. "The album's cover was embossed with letters that said, in English, MEMORY OF WEDDING...
...Thailand on a moonlit night. Suddenly the fishermen spotted two dark silhouettes clipping toward them across the water. Skipper Kimheng Phonsawat, 47, did not wait to identify them. Crouching low over his wheel, he instantly directed both his boats to slash their nets and make for nearby Ko Kut Island at full throttle. "I could tell by the sound that the other boats had 300-h.p. engines," he recalled. "As one of them pulled alongside, we came under rifle fire." Three of Kimheng's crew were killed, but then the attacking craft inexplicably veered off. Kimheng made it safely...
...called, the Soviet Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway is the biggest construction project under way anywhere in the world today. To tap directly into the varied resources of Siberia, the Soviets are laying track across a 1,965-mile stretch of wilderness running from the frontier town of Ust-Kut near Lake Baikal to an eastern terminus at Komsomolsk, 565 miles north of Vladivostok. By the time the last rail is laid in 1983, the cost of the project, now one-third cornplete after three years of work, may reach $15 billion-twice the price of the Alaska pipeline. TIME...