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...highway to the edge of a sugar-cane field. There they all got out; while Michele munched a piece of sugar cane, which she asked her captors to cut for her, the Viet Cong set up a booby trap in the Renault with a grenade and a 155-mm. howitzer shell. Then they marched their prisoner...
...attack planes recently bought in the U.S. During the Sinai drive, Israel relied on only a few squadrons of French Mysteres for air protection. Now it has some 500 combat jets-four times as many as Syria. It can transport its troops in helicopters. It can roll up 160-mm. mortars and modified Shermans with 105-mm. guns so accurate that they knocked out three of Syria's Russian-made tanks across the border two weeks...
celebrated South Viet Nam's National Day by lobbing 75-mm. recoilless-rifle shells into downtown Saigon. Last month a 25-man sabotage squad slipped through the heavily guarded perimeter of Tan Son Nhut, nearly reached a parking apron filled with warplanes be fore they were discovered and shot down. As it turns out, the Viet Cong made a mistake by pressing the city so hard: they jolted the U.S. high com mand into action...
...swirling battle that covered a huge part of the sky," said Air Force Colonel Robin Olds, 44, who led the fighter sweep. The MIG-21s pressed in aggressively on the first three flights of Phantoms, hoping to use their 30-mm. cannon inside the deadly jab range of the American Sidewinder and Sparrow air-to-air missiles. Olds, an All-American football player in his West Point days and 24½-kill ace during World War II, picked off one MIG by flipping his Phantom on its back and then diving in behind the enemy plane to send a Sidewinder...
...have us believe, racing only inspires soul-searching metaphor; Bedford says, "with a car, you can take the body off, find out what's wrong, and fix it. Too bad people are never like that." Perhaps most exasperating though is the scene where Garner is forced to watch 16 mm footage of his mistakes in the last race. Frankenheimer effortlessly cuts away from the scene, just as the American's employer begins to show him what went wrong...