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...Reunite? In Moscow, the leaders of nine Communist nations* gathered for a secret summit and a show of Soviet spaceshots. Not long ago, such a gathering would inevitably result in barbed blasts at the West accompanied by the rattle of rockets or the slap of brick on mortar. Not so last week. In their bland communiqué, there was not one howl at the "imperialists," not one threat of "burial." Indeed, the haste with which the meeting was called implied a response to Washington initiatives rather than a new move by Moscow. What the Reds talked about remained a mystery...
...little time for socializing. When she is not covering political upheavals in the city, she is usually chasing down front-line action. When Viet Cong bullets began spattering around her near Danang, she took pictures first, cover second. Once the sound of a not-too-near mortar shell prompted four Marines to fling themselves over her "protectively." Says she: "They're always doing cute things like that in the field...
...almost steady siege. Across from the Rock rears the Razorback-a steep ridge whose sides are pocked with caves dug by the Japanese in World War II, but now occupied by North Vietnamese. Several hundred yards below the Rock, the Reds have dug "spider holes" from which they lob mortar fire and mount ambushes. Two miles to the south stands Hill 400, dominating the Rock-pile and infested with Reds. Last week the Marines moved simultaneously against the Razorback and Hill 400. By week's end, both were in their hands...
Snakes & Lanterns. Fighter-bombers seared both hills with flaming napalm, then returned with rockets, heavy fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire. For three days, the Reds on Hill 400 hit back with mortar and small-arms fire so intense that Medevac helicopters could not land to take out Marine wounded. Finally, Marine pilots used 1,000-lb. bombs to blast craters deep enough to provide cover for the choppers, and a few critical cases were evacuated. Then the Marines moved out, stormed the hill with satchel charges,* and blasted the Reds out of their holes. They found a Communist regimental...
...firing line will probably pepper his latest book, which presents targets in gratifying profusion. Cannibals and Christians is mostly warmed-over Mailer: a scatter of pseudo poems (he calls them "short hairs"), essays, dialectic, sermonizing, book reviews, literary criticism and political reportage. The principal new material is some italicized mortar troweled in to support the notion that this pile of used bricks rose and took form from a blue print, which of course...