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Deadly Debut. The most widely used of the new weapons made its first appearance in South Viet Nam nine months ago, and has since been used with increasing intensity. It is the Soviet-made, self-propelled 122-mm. rocket, whose seven-mile range has snatched every sanctuary away from the allies. The 122 has hit every major U.S. installation except Cam Ranh Bay at least once; its 42-lb. warhead has destroyed scores of parked U.S. planes, pockmarked runways from Danang to Tan Son Nhut. It has also been used against most cities, striking dread into the South Vietnamese. They...
...with a new 107mm. rocket that made its deadly debut during Tet. It fires a self-propelled warhead that can demolish a small build ing or blow up a bunker at a range of five miles. The 107 has about l½ times the striking power of a 75-mm. cannon, but it weighs-rocket, launcher, tripod and all-only about 200 lbs. v. 1,270 for a 75-mm.-pack howitzer...
...route to the final ceremonies next day, McNamara, Johnson and eleven others got stuck in the Pentagon's elevator No. 13 for twelve minutes. Once outside, they learned that a chilling rain had forced the cancellation of an Air Force and Navy flyover. After four 105-mm. howitzers boomed out a 19-gun salute, Johnson told an audience of 1,000 before the columned Potomac River entrance to the Pentagon: "I have heard this place here referred to as the 'puzzle palace.' Bob McNamara may be the only man who ever found the solution to the puzzle...
...North Vietnamese are doing everything they can to make the skies over Khe Sanh unsafe. So far, they have managed to destroy only one American C-130 transport and temporarily disable another, but they keep the airstrip under constant fire whenever a plane lands. They are also adding 37-mm. flak to the hundreds of machine guns that already ring the Marine base. U.S. flyers even fear that SAMS and MIGS may soon be used around Khe Sanh; in fact, B-52s are now escorted on their daily raids by a protective formation of fighters known...
...Communist shellfire began hitting Saigon in the middle of the night, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker was whisked from his villa to a secure haven for the second time in three weeks. So was President Nguyen Van Thieu, as fears spread of Viet Cong again rampaging through Saigon. Six 82-mm. mortar rounds exploded outside the U.S.'s "Pentagon East" headquarters, where General William C. Westmoreland was sleeping. The commander was not hurt, but shell fragments wounded four sentries...