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...Zuni rockets, napalm, 260-lb. to 3,000-lb. bombs. At the newest of the fields, Chu Lai, leveled and surfaced with aluminum matting by the Seabees in less than 30 days last spring, the runway is still so short that the jets take off in a double-throated roar of engines and Jet Assisted Takeoff bottles, sometimes returning to land carrier-style with an arresting cable at runway...
...marines at Chu Lai are accustomed to the roar over their tents on the steaming dunes. Less easy to take has been the choking dust, now damped down by the first northern monsoons, and the fact that the nearest liberty is the Marine headquarters town of Danang. "That's like being allowed to leave the state prison to go to the county jail," snorts one leatherneck. In Danang and Phu Bai, the rains have turned the infernal red dust into infernal red mud, in which a truck can sink to its door handles. On the perimeters, the marines...
...Force KC-135 transport circled Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport for 30 minutes to enable a flight of F-100 Supersabres to roar off for a sortie. By the time the KC-135 was down and hatch open, the sudden October monsoon was whipping a veritable wall of water in its face. There on the strip stood a U.S. brigadier general and dozens of pretty Vietnamese girls in sodden turquoise and white ao dais. "If they care enough about us to stand out there in the rain," said the first passenger, "the least we can do is stand...
...night last week, the giant awoke with a roar. Rock and mud, steam and magma belched from its 44-mile-deep core. Two villages vanished under a newly created lagoon nearly a mile long. Orange lava licked its way down the southern slopes of Taal, on top of roof-deep...
Elections in a one-party state are usually about as exciting as guessing how many beans in a bottle. As one-party Tanzania went to the polls last week, however, the roar in the fore ground sounded strangely like politicians fighting for votes. For six weeks, candidates had been crisscrossing the nation, walking as far as 30 miles to appear under banyan trees at isolated village rallies. Even President Julius Nyerere felt constrained to stump through the countryside with his new Polaroid camera, awing prospective voters by handing out pictures he had just taken of them...