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...barrage, fired by a 105 mm, howitzer battery, hit the south side of the main temple, destroying the third floor of the southern gate, the sources reported. Ten peasants were killed in a nearby pagoda...
...operated by Russians. That implies a deepening Soviet involvement in the Middle East. When the Israelis celebrate their 23rd independence day this week, they will exhibit arms of their own, including U.S.-supplied helicopters, self-propelled guns and amphibious armored personnel carriers. Also on display will be 240-mm. Russian rocket launchers that were captured during the 1967 Six-Day War and can lay down in twelve seconds a barrage of twelve shells within a radius of 150 yds. at a range of seven miles...
...force by 1974 or 1975. The Vietnamese navy already has received nearly all of a fleet of 1,600 boats and ships; the ground forces are getting-among other things-640,000 M-16 rifles, 20,000 machine guns, 34,000 grenade launchers, 870 howitzers, 10,000 81-mm. mortars, 220 M41 tanks, 1,000 armored personnel carriers, 44,000 trucks and 40,000 radios. One official (and probably low) estimate puts the cost of this sort of giving over the past three years at $1 billion...
...moonless sky with uncanny accuracy. Hunkered down in their bunkers, the G.I.s never even saw the 50 or so North Vietnamese sappers who slipped through the perimeter wire, wearing nothing but shorts, black grease and strings of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). One group wiped out the 155-mm. howitzers, another tossed tear gas grenades and satchel charges into the TOC, killing or wounding virtually everyone inside. Methodically, the others went from bunker to bunker, blowing them with satchel charges, RPGs and, in some cases, homemade grenades fashioned from Coca-Cola cans. One G.I. stayed alive by playing dead; a sapper...
North of Khe Sanh, some 20,000 Communist troops were poised above the Demilitarized Zone, while inside the DMZ the Communists massed a formidable array of tanks, mortar batteries, rockets, antiaircraft guns and heavy 152-mm. howitzers with an elevenmile range. The buildup-biggest in the DMZ since the 1968 bombing halt-might have been a reaction to allied hints that an invasion of North Viet Nam might be attempted if Lam Son were to turn sour. But some U.S. officers, fearful that it foreshadowed a period of relentless Communist shelling and possibly a fullblown invasion, rushed 7,000 additional...