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Hunched down in concrete foxholes, the officers and NCOs fingered the triggers of their M-16s as instructors stood behind, monitoring the shooting exercise. Then came the command to fire: "Comienzen fuego...
...country. Today guerrilla groups in Usulutan department loiter openly along the nation's most important highway, occasionally burning buses and trucks, collecting "revolutionary taxes" from travelers and delivering political lectures while Salvadoran army soldiers watch from a prudent distance. In one such incident, about 40 guerrillas armed with M-16s and older carbines blocked the road and burned a cotton truck and a Jeep. The marauders posed happily for pictures. About a mile away, a contingent of Salvadoran soldiers watched the billowing smoke rise in the sky. One of the soldiers, little more than a teenager, announced that...
Dauntless is armed with a 3-in. gun that fires 3-ft.-long armor-piercing shells, two .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, plus M-16s and handguns. Perhaps its most useful weapon is a gigantic pair of powerful binoculars mounted on the roof of the wheelhouse. The crew calls them...
...Saks Fifth Avenue on Holyoke St. and the Harvard Pro) two buildings and two police cars were gutted with fire as guerilla warfare invaded Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn St. Rocks, bottles and the sound of "Street Fighting Man" from a room in Claverly to be sure, rather than M-16s, napalm and black pajamas, but it would do. Tear gas canisters tossed into the Yard--and tossed back--and into Quincy House courtyard. A curfew gave Cambridge police the power to arrest on sight anyone seen walking the streets. The Crimson turned into a makeshift first-aid center...
...love this city.' Then he shook hands, raced back to his Jeep and sped away. Only on the outskirts of Kwangju did I see some army troops, part of an estimated 15,000 who had been ordered to surround the periphery of the city. The soldiers were holding M-16s and guarding an approach to a penitentiary. Some demonstrators were giving them candy...