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...undershirt, a razor and a skinned rabbit on a platter become objects of dread. An oppressive silence is broken only by the buzzing of flies, dripping water, a ticking clock. Rooms change shape, the mere flip of a light switch creates fissures in the walls, a phantom ravisher begins to stalk the tiny flat...
...planes came back last week. High over the Song Chu river locks near Thanh Hoa, something slammed into the tail of a Navy F-4 Phantom jet, converting it instantly into flaming debris. It seemed the work of SAM, the mobile Russian rocket, which had already brought down two other high-flying U.S. jets. Apart from the half-dozen fixed sites clustered around Hanoi, the U.S. does not know how many SAM units there are in North Viet Nam, for as quickly as they fire, the mobile installations lumber off on their trucks and trailers to new locations...
...third day up, the astronauts did the next best thing: they played a game of electronic tag. In an imaginary chase across the heavens, Cooper, in four precise maneuvers, closed the gap between the orbit of Gemini 5 and the simulated orbit of a phantom Agena rocket plotted by a computer...
...backward burn from the thrusters, lowering Gemini's apogee by 13 miles. Almost 40 minutes later, he triggered a forward burn to raise the perigee ten miles. Next he yawed the spacecraft and fired the aft thrusters to move it onto the same orbital plane as the phantom. After one last forward thrust to raise the apogee, Cooper had his craft in a co-elliptical orbit with the phantom Agena-close enough so that the pilot, using on-board radar and computer, could eventually bring his craft to within 17 miles below and 38 miles behind the phantom. "Mission...
Offshore stood the helicopter carrier Jwo Jitna and the attack-transport Talladega, each carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support. From the air, two squadrons of Phantom II jets and five squadrons of Skyhawks dropped tons of napalm and bombs on Viet Cong positions. It was a devastating punch, involving more than 5,000 U.S. ground troops; every one of them was needed, for the V.C. were tough and well dug in. "It was almost like Normandy," said one Marine commander. "They fought us from hedgerow...