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Despite such tactics, incidents of terrorism still occur. Arab "commandos" last month infiltrated close enough to Tel Aviv to lob nine mortar shells into the suburb of Petah Tiqva, and two weeks ago another guerrilla band shot it out with police near the city's international airport. Terrorists also blew up the water reservoir of a kibbutz in Upper Galilee, almost succeeded in cutting the rail line to Jerusalem and derailed a passenger train in the Negev...
...look at Dak Son, the Montagnard village recently destroyed by the Viet Cong in the war's worst atrocity. The Senator and a party of four hopped to the ground in Dak Son, leaving Loraine Percy in the chopper, and were met by a welcoming barrage of mortar and small-arms fire from surrounding V.C.s. "I can assure you I have never gotten closer to the ground," said Percy, who was pinned down for 15 minutes until four U.S. Army copters whirred in to bail him out. "I saw more action there than I did in three years...
...villages under the protection of reinforced Indonesian troops, but the guerrillas themselves remain threatening and elusive. As in Viet Nam, they burrow deep in underground bunkers and in mountainside caves, attack only when they consider the odds right. Two weeks ago, 500 guerrillas caught Indonesian troops in a heavy mortar barrage at Fir Mountain, near the Malaysian Borneo state of Sarawak, where the soldiers had stumbled upon a major guerrilla encampment. While the Indonesians flew in more troops, the Malaysians evacuated Indonesian casualties...
...North Vietnamese displayed fresh aggressiveness of their own. They once again attacked the Special Forces camp of Bu Dop, three miles from the Cambodian border, but were beaten off by 1st Infantry Division soldiers. North Vietnamese artillery and mortar units poured the heaviest fire on the U.S. Marine Demilitarized Zone outpost of Con Thien in more than a month-276 rounds in a single day. The U.S. also was monitoring a heavy buildup in Communist traffic coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos toward South Viet...
...Bureaucrats. Within the church, the mysterious process by which bishops are chosen has recently come in for some sharp criticism. Many Catholics feel that priests and laymen should have at least some indirect say in electing their bishops; others feel that the present system produces too many brick-and-mortar bureaucratic conformists and too few spiritual leaders with real pastoral qualities. Aware that the system needs updating, the U.S. hierarchy last April agreed to set up a special commission that would screen candidates proposed by all bishops. Some U.S. bishops-among them Bishop Clarence Issenmann of Cleveland-have begun...