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...defenders fell back on a wall and wire-bound compound as the Viet Cong slaughtered women and children hiding in nearby dugouts. Though U.S. and North Vietnamese planes arrived with the dawn, rolling great red gouts of napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
...Phosphorus Barrage. From the 16,000 U.S. military men stationed in South Viet Nam, Taylor demanded an increased effort. "We're already aiding the Vietnamese in a thousand and one ways," he told them. "But let's not be satisfied when it might prove that the thousand and second way is the decisive one." Just how seriously that exhortation was taken was proved during one of three Viet Cong raids last week on U.S. Special Forces camps. When two Viet Cong battalions hit the camp near Nam Dong with a predawn barrage of white phosphorus mortar shells...
...Oregon researchers wanted to find out whether hormones tagged with a radioactive phosphorus compound would concentrate in the cancers to effect a faster cure. But first they had to make the cancers grow lustily, and this they did by giving the rats a variety of hormones. Among them were progestin and an estrogen, hormones which are combined in G. D. Searle & Co.'s famed Enovid (pronounced En-ah-vid) contraceptive pills...
...Englebert Dunphy, the university's chief of surgery, had to spend all his time explaining what his researchers had not meant to do, rather than what they accomplished-which was to satisfy themselves that hormones combined with radioactive phosphorus would slow or stop the growth of some rat tumors...
...frenzy. As Simon scrambles out of the woods, they fall upon him and, making him surrogate for the beast, kill him. A brief and poignant scene follows: in the warm cradle of the surf Simon's small body is rocked to and fro, swaddled in a glimmer of phosphorus until it is carried...