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Just south of the Syrian border, incoming shelling forced us to turn into a base that had been overrun by the Syrians on Yom Kippur and retaken later by Israel. Syrian artillery and tank fire had left gaping holes in the concrete barracks, where clothing, boots and Playboy foldouts lay under the debris. The hospital was filled with injured Israeli soldiers. Surviving members of the base's original defenders were returning, still stunned by the Syrian attack. One said: "I can't begin to absorb what I have seen." Another bitterly remarked: "Our government was idiotic...
...London closet, he departs for the Crimea, where-you have guessed it already-he leads the charge of the Light Brigade (without meaning to), falls prisoner to Cossacks, escapes from the Russian steppes by sled, and, after many a contretemps, foils the Czar's plan to overrun India by helping a grisly band of Transcaucasians to blow up two boatloads of gunpowder...
...Against the depredations of the big oil interests, she defends a well that she is convinced is worth a fortune. In this she is aided by a tough drifter (George C. Scott) and her gentle father (John Mills), and besieged by the senior tough on the gang trying to overrun her claim (Jack Palance...
Everybody else is the public. The public is of a different breed than the natives. It is made of outsiders, invaders, barred access to the club lest they overrun it. But this is no motley ball-park public. It is a public with money, or at least with pretensions to it. The men wear Fred Perry sportshirts and the women have tennis tans. They have come, not just to see the pros, but to see Longwood, and to mix with...
Under Nixon's orders, in direct defiance of the United States Congress, American planes have dropped bombs on Cambodia on a daily basis since late in February. Nixon has claimed that the bombing is directed against North Vietnamese invaders who are attempting to overrun the country, that only military targets are being hit, and that the aerial onslaught is intended only to prop up the tottering January peace agreements...