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...warned that Hanoi is interested in talks as a means of achieving not peace but a different kind of war. By getting the U.S. to call off its bombers, he reasoned, the North Vietnamese would "lower the profile" of the conflict, reducing it from big-unit operations to the pinprick guerrilla maneuvers at which the Communists have been so effective. Reinforcing that line of thought was a document recently captured by U.S. forces calling on the Communists to "fight the war and negotiate at the same time." The directive continued: "The war will be settled only on the battlefield...
Never So Poor. Bhutto's people in the Foreign Ministry seem to be sponsoring a pinprick campaign to pester Americans. U.S. embassy mail has been held up repeatedly, and during last month's warfare embassy chauffeurs fetching officials from their homes late at night were frequently arrested and manhandled-which could only happen with the concurrence of the government...
...greatest advantage is speed. It can be loaded with enough vaccine for 55 shots, can give 1,200 an hour, does not need to be sterilized for every shot, nor have a needle changed. For the patient, it is preferable because the injection feels like a slight, instantaneous pinprick...
Thirty-five British colonies in five continents, and dotting the seven seas, are still ruled directly from Whitehall. Among them are the massive tracts of Tanganyika and Nigeria, the island arcs of the Solomons and the Lesser Antilles, such pinprick naval bases as Malta and Ascension (35 sq. mi.), which was administered for 107 years as one of Her Majesty's warships.* Britain's colonies were picked up, along with the commonwealth, in what the British like to call "a fit of absence of mind." Most of them were the concomitants of sea power and the search...
...Scottish Trappists, Royal Lancers and Fijian dancers. They worship many gods, among them Allah, Buddha, the Christian Trinity, Lutembe the Crocodile of Uganda, and, in some cases, Mammon. They make their homes where birth or the spirit of adventure placed them-on an entire continent, on great islands and pinprick islets, in obscure deserts, tropical jungles, foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones like St. Helena or Piccadilly. No man among them can fluently speak the tongues of all-Urdu...