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...million for cruise missiles that could be fired from either submarines or airplanes. Powered throughout its flight by a jet engine, the 15-ft.-long missile would fly up to 1,500 miles, hugging the surface to elude Soviet radar, and deliver its warhead squarely on target...
...States was scheduled to visit. The codeword for the payload was "corpse," and so an alert operator smelled a plot with a higher and more violent purpose and had the call traced. By the time the smugglers' plane was in the air, it was already photographed and under constant radar and photographic surveillance. Which just goes to show James's ingenuity and initiative in getting off the hook. Still, the life of a dealer had deeply affected James, the son of an unbending man who when the family used to live in the hills of North Carolina, other relatives used...
...over North Vietnam, radar operators scanned their screens carefully. American bombing had stopped two months earlier, just before the U.S. presidential election, but eight years of air war had taught the North Vietnamese never to relax their vigilance. Furthermore, the Paris negotiations had broken down a few days previous and messages from Washington had grown increasingly menacing...
Suddenly the radar operators leaned forward in amazement. Flocks of giant blips appeared on their screens--blips that could only signify B-52's, the biggest and most awesome weapon in the United States's arsenal. The operators began to calculate coordinates and plot trajectories, and their fears mounted as they did so: the bombers were not heading for the mountainous trails of Laos this time, or for the panhandle villages, or for army camps in the countryside. The operators alerted the air defense crews with special urgency. The B-52's were all heading for Hanoi--the first installment...
...North Vietnam today, at this moment, former peasants are watching radar screens. The bombing ended last January, but U.S. reconnaissance planes still fly over the country and the B-52's are still based in Thailand. From time to time U.S. officials threaten to resume the air war; the watchers remain alert. Across North Vietnam workmen are rebuilding bombed-out bridges, doctors are tending patients and students are attending school. And peasants--men and women who have defied the American thunder and built a new society--are plodding along behing their plows, tilling their increasingly bountiful rice fields...