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...antiaircraft system is especially potent, the pilots fly high-but not on grass. There may be plenty of pot smokers in Viet Nam's foxholes, but there are very few in its helicopters, where a man may have to monitor five radios at once, handle a number of lethal weapons, and manipulate complex controls...
...patrol craft and must defend itself. The Russians could, of course, assign a smaller boat to trail the U.S. trailer. Eventually a long line of vessels of diminishing size would string out over the Mediterranean. Each would wheel to fire its heavier weapons at the less lethal boat astern. The final casualty might well be a lone U.S. Navy bos'n, brandishing a .45-cal. revolver as his canoe sinks into...
...Last week President Thieu announced that 99.8% of the population and 99.4% of the hamlets and villages were controlled by the government. Yet even if the hamlets rated A (for fully government-controlled), few ranking officials would care to spend the night lest the Communists stage a lethal raid...
...parties in West Bengal are also contesting 280 seats in the state legislature. Political infighting has reached a murderous frenzy, especially in Calcutta. In "the packed and pestilential town," as Rudyard Kipling described it, every day is St. Valentine's Day and every side street as potentially lethal as the Chicago garage where seven gangsters were slaughtered by rival hoods in a Feb. 14, 1929, massacre. Since March of last year, when Bengal's coalition government collapsed and presidential rule was imposed by New Delhi, nearly 1,500 political murders have been committed...
...punches each round. He works almost exclusively inside, crouching and always moving in to slam the body. When the pummeling begins to slow his opponent, when the guard drops to protect the stomach, Frazier tosses a murderous left hook to the head. His coup de grâce is lethal. "Getting hit by Joe," says Light Heavyweight Ray Anderson, one of Frazier's sparring partners, "is like getting run over by a bus." Some of his victims, like Light Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster, literally have no recollection of what hit them...