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...used several times, and a G.I. can carry at least five of its rocket charges. Every bit as powerful as the two-man, 20-lb., $175 bazooka it is meant to replace, the "XM-72 Rocket Grenade" is a companion piece for the foot soldier's 90-mm. recoilless rifle. Between the two, says the Army, ground outfits will have the antitank weapons they need. "We hope to issue them like hand grenades...
Showdown. Kong Le began by reinforcing his garrison with 2,000 Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas from the nearby jungles. Then he turned for further aid to his good friend, Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov. Helpfully, Abramov flew in six 105-mm. howitzers and eight 120-mm. mortars as well as a batch of North Vietnamese to teach the Laotians how to use their new weapons. At his stronghold to the south, Savannakhet, General Phoumi countered by convening most of the members of the National Assembly. They voted Prince Souvanna out of office and named as the new Premier Boun...
...Souvanna's own Captain Kong Le marched out to oppose insurgent General Phoumi in the jungles along the great and languid Mekong River. And when Souvanna fancied that the U.S. was aiding Phoumi to his detriment, he himself applied for Russian aid. Phoumi's American-made 105-mm. howitzers resounded in the jungle and Russian Ilyushin-145 droned overhead bearing gasoline for Souvanna's forces...
...instead of the usual unwieldy task force. Says Drew: "We would not move in with our lights and cameras and convert a worker's shack into a television studio. That way you simply don't get a feeling of reality." Using natural lighting, a stripped-down 16-mm. camera and, if necessary, a midget recording machine, Drew's reporting teams do their work unobtrusively, spend as long as a week befriending a family till they are willing to talk freely...
...until 1953, when he bought a tiny, wrist-strapped, 16-mm. camera to film the Grand Prix de Paris, did Reichenbach find his calling, and begin to make short documentaries about the U.S. For L'Amérique Insolite he spent 18 months crisscrossing the continent in an effort to capture "the American from birth to death, his extraordinary youth, his passions, his love of violence, his kindness...