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...Year ran the mile in 3:51.3, and died under mortar fire at An Lao. He got a B-minus in Physics I, earned a Fulbright scholarship, filmed a documentary in a Manhattan ghetto, and guided Gemini rendezvous in space. He earns $76 a week with Operation Head Start in Philadelphia, picks up $10,800 a year as a metallurgical engineer at Ford, and farms 600 acres of Dakota wheat land. He has a lightning-fast left jab, a rifling right arm, and reads medieval metaphysicians. He campaigned for Reagan, booed George Wallace, and fought for racial integration...
...Malley, 23, who as a Marine Corps corporal in Viet Nam was severely wounded by enemy mortar fire, yet succeeded in evacuating what remained of his platoon and killing eight V.C.s...
Outgunned in open combat, the Viet Cong reverted to type, mortaring a number of isolated outposts and headquarters. For the second time in three weeks, guerrillas hit the Long Binh ammunition dump 13 miles north of Saigon. Under cover of mortar fire, Viet Cong penetrated the depot's perimeter, detonated a satchel charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also...
...Enemies. Understandably, angry Lebanese have been anxious to know how it all happened, and by last week it was possible to piece together, with the mortar of some conjecture, the pattern of failure. Intra's power had made for the bank and its chairman, Yusif Bedas, some powerful enemies. And in a series of separate acts that built a devastating chain, they broke the bank...
...guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain experience and, possibly, arms. Planted officers participated in field maneuvers designed to perfect homemade bombs and hone the group's commando tactics. In one exercise, a Minuteman was observed firing cans of peas from a mortar at a pasture full of cows, while a forward lookout called back range corrections...