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...noon, and another round of shelling has begun in Komura. As the earth shudders, men drop into bunkers near a thick stand of bamboo trees. Nobody talks, but with each blast, the muscles in the men's faces tighten. Saw Klee Moo's face, however, remains smooth. When a rocket explodes nearby, shaking the ammunition crate where Saw Klee Moo crouches, he smiles. Saw Klee Moo is nearly 15 and certain that he will never be hit by a bomb...
...brand-new W-88 warhead carried by D-5 missiles fired by Trident II submarines. The D-5 is one of the principal weapons that would be launched at the Soviet Union in a nuclear war. Some scientists contend that the design of the third stage places too much rocket fuel too close to the warheads. Conceivably the fuel could ignite and detonate chemical explosives in the warhead while the missile was being handled in port, producing a potentially heavy leakage of cancer-causing plutonium dust near Trident bases in Washington State and Georgia. Other experts furiously dispute these findings...
...when it may have to compensate for lost real estate with extra missiles. "As our overall situation deteriorates," says one official, "we have to reinforce ourselves where we have a vanguard position." Then he adds with a thin smile, "That means the ballet and the Strategic Rocket Forces...
...ended last Friday when Chairman Lee Iacocca said the company will build the car, but only about 500 annually. Powered by a 400-h.p., ten-cylinder engine, the Viper will be built for speed and handling. Chrysler insiders claim that the car will be able to accelerate like a rocket sled, zooming from 0 to 160 k.p.h. in about ten seconds, faster than the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1. The first Vipers off the line should be available late next year at a price of $30,000 to $40,000. Chrysler hopes the new vehicle will demonstrate that the company...
Seng, a driver for the TIME correspondents who covered the Cambodian war, soon grasped the dimension of the crisis. The day before the final assault on the capital, with rockets landing less than a block from his apartment, Seng and his stroke-crippled wife asked a relative to take their two boys and two girls to a nearby hospital, thinking they might be safer there. The boys, Neang, 14, and Aun, 6, returned home later that afternoon as the rocket attacks subsided. But the two frightened daughters, Seng Ly, 9, and Theary, 12, stayed put. When their father went...