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...troops. This would have to be at a coastal target like Dong Hoi, just north of the Demilitarized Zone. It could bolster ARVN morale and draw some NVA troops back North. But it would require some 10,000 troops and the South cannot readily spare that number. A similar raid could be conducted by ARVN paratroopers, but they hold key defensive positions in the South...
...Mafia war, triggered by last month's murder of Mobster Joey Gallo (TIME, April 17), is still as hot as ever. Federal agents have learned that at least eight more Mafiosi have been marked for death. The toll might already have been higher if a massive raid by eight carloads of FBI men and New York state troopers last week had not temporarily disarmed at least part of one of the gangs...
...Rogers and Kissinger were scarcely more enthusiastic, though evidently less concerned about what might happen politically. Finally the President made up his mind. Top-secret instructions were sent in code via satellite to the B-52 bases and to the Seventh Fleet. Next day he sent the order to raid Hanoi and Haiphong. Within a few hours, the B-52s lifted off the long runways and the Phantoms catapulted from carrier decks in the Tonkin Gulf...
...devices are not 100% foolproof. Enemy troops often foil the people sniffers by hanging buckets of urine in the trees. Even the "wild weasels," which were designed to counteract Soviet-built SAMs, occasionally run amuck. During the Haiphong raid, an anti-radar missile that was intended to strike a Communist antenna accidentally homed in on the guided missile frigate Warden. The ship was so heavily damaged that it had to be towed to the Philippines for repairs...
...being served a pair of spurs in a covered dish by his wife-a hint that the larder was bare and that he had better go rustle a few cows. (Auld Wat is also credited with a memorable remark to a haystack, which he noticed while returning from a raid: "Aye, if ye had four legs ye wouldna stand there lang...