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While the Pleiku attack was certainly a test of our determination, it was no more so than the hundreds of similar raids executed by the Viet Cong in the past several years. Saturday's raiders employed traditional guerilla tactics and, as has become usual, mounted their short, lethal offensive with stolen or captured American arms. In no way did the incident resemble last summer's Tonkin affair, where American bombing answered clearly defined aggression by the North Vietnamese government...
...body was found Monday afternoon by his roommate in their Hastings Hall room. Dow said that he also discovered some sleeping pills in the room, and that these were apparently responsible for the death. He added that the autopsy and pathological tests indicated that Bertusi had swallowed a lethal dose, one too high to be taken accidentally...
...time the girls get around to their really lethal mischief, one wielding a flatiron, the other a kitchen knife, the audience is too sated with lunacy and violence to absorb any message-except possibly to beware of sleep-in maids...
Scenarist Harold Pinter and Director Jack Clayton (Room At The Top) show proper scorn for the easy tricks of melodrama. Their unsentimental aim is to take a marriage apart and nail up the bleeding pieces for honest scrutiny. Often as not, they succeed, finding lethal words and crisp images to express the timeless battle that Author Mortimer describes as "men and women who murder each other with all the weapons of devotion...
...President's neck slightly to the right of the spine, traveled slightly downward, ripped the windpipe, and shot out the front of his neck at almost the same speed at which it hit; it nicked a corner of the knot on his necktie. That wound, says the Warren Commission, lethal." But the second bullet that hit bored into the right rear of his skull, "causing a massive and fatal wound" approximately five inches wide on the right side of his head. So extensive was the damage that the Parkland doctors were unsure whether the bullets had landed from back...