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Some 2,000 yards to the east, a crew of "lifers" from Camp Lejeune, N.C., looked disgustedly at the spectacle through binoculars. According to the scenario, they represented a destroyer supplying supportive 175-mm. gunfire...
...when the Viet Cong were poorly armed and waging primarily a guerrilla war, the Communists are now armed with heavy weapons. Intelligence sources estimate they have 400 tanks within or near the borders of the South, as well as many artillery pieces, including the 17-mile-range 130-mm. cannon...
...film making but also about the world around him and the people with whom he shares it. Unfortunately, he lacks the artist's talent to mold and shape his insights into truly engaging works. This film-made in 1968 but delayed in release here until a satisfactory 35-mm. print could be made from his 70-mm. original-is almost as stupefying as his more recent Traffic (TIME, Jan. 1) and ranks with it as one of the truly excruciating cinematic experiences of recent years...
...mm. howitzer position, imbedded in granite with only its muzzle protruding, the battery commander has choreographed a little ballet to impress visitors from the outside world. His twelve-man squad performs with perfect precision-running, jumping, stamping and shouting-all the while simulating the loading of the big gun. Most of the troops have little opportunity to fire live ammunition, however. Instead, the Nationalists concentrate on "psy-war." They have a high-powered radio station that reaches deep into the mainland. High-altitude balloons intermittently shower propaganda leaflets on the "enemy," with slogans like "Chiang Kai-shek is concerned about...
Sebastien has agreed to let a television film crew shoot the rehearsals, and the 16 mm footage which they take is intercut with that of the conventional cameras. The effect is to give a documentary depth to the characters, seen now being followed around the stage by the television people, now in grainy images shot by the crew. Actors lounge off stage while waiting to go on, drink Cokes over reading sessions, move from tension to fatigue. The two views together provide a convincing if tiring casualness...