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...year ago this month, in one of the worst battles of the war, Communist-led Khmer insurgents pounded the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh with artillery and rocket fire for seven straight weeks. Somehow the city survived. Last week, it was once again hunkering down for another brutal assault. The insurgent forces, who now control most of Cambodia outside the major cities, are currently concentrating their attacks on Neak Luong, a small but vital Mekong River shipping channel 32 miles southeast of the capital. But there are daily rocket attacks in and around Phnom-Penh, and it is only...
...city itself, the daily terror is the constant expectation of a rocket attack. The Chinese-built 107-mm. missiles are wobbly, unguided weapons at best, which the insurgents fire from metal tubes propped up by two sticks or the fork of a small tree. They are a barbarous form of warfare, because when they hit the ground or touch a treetop they turn into thousands of jagged, 2-in. shrapnel fragments. Innocent women and children going about their daily chores seem to be their most common victims...
...taking a new look at such surface-to-surface weapons. Descendants of the Nazi V-l "buzz bombs" of World War II, cruise missiles are similar to unmanned planes. Equipped with turbine engines and stubby wings, they can be launched from ships, aircraft or even submerged submarines; a rocket booster propels the missile until it breaks through the water's surface and its engine takes over. When equipped with a terrain-following electronic guidance system, which is now being developed, it should be able to skim great distances over land or water (as far as 1,500 miles). while...
MIRV AND MARV: No greater challenge faces the architects of electronic warfare than to devise a defense against MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles) nuclear missiles, which scatter warheads toward several different targets after the rocket re-enters the atmosphere. The more deadly MARVs (for maneuvering reentry vehicles) have several separate nuclear payloads that can be maneuvered in different directions and at varying speeds as they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat...
Neil Sedaka: Sedaka's Back (Rocket). As an early '60s teen-age idol of prom crowds in strapless formals and ducktail haircuts, Sedaka wrote more than 75 top ten hits. Then the Beatles squeezed out shooby-dooby, and Sedaka slipped into obscurity. In his first U.S. album in twelve years, he retains his cozy, cheerful style; yet his songs dig deeper. Laughter in the Rain is already a hit, and Solitaire and Standing on the Inside have high musical polish...