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Ambiguous Clues. Watching his sister for "signs of wellness," Richard notes, "Meg is now almost feeding herself. When she eats, food splashes over her chin . . . but that only means she's eating with more zest." He desperately tries to find in her crankiest non sequitur some shred of sanity or sense. He does his best to forget that she spends a good deal of time kissing the mirror and dangles the kitten he gave her by its tail...
...rather it is set by "the continuous and continuing Communist buildup." In fact, materiel from both Hanoi and the U.S. contribute to the tempo of military action. Martin never directly claims that there have been no South Vietnamese violations of the ceasefire; he attacks Shipler for not presenting "a shred of evidence" of such violations. "The U.S.," he insists, "has no military advisers in South Viet Nam; no advice is given the Vietnamese in contravention of the Paris agreements." He charges that Shipler's claim of U.S. advice to South Vietnamese police is "utterly false and known...
Flechettes are small steel nails, with protruding fins at one end, designed to enlarge the wounds as they enter the body. Doctors report that flechettes peel off the outer tissue, shred internal organs, lodge in blood vessels deep in the body, and are more difficult to remove than any other antipersonnel device...
Anti-personnel bombs flutter to earth and land silently in darkened rice fields. There they wait sinisterly, like chunks of debris. They explode only at human contact, spewing out hundreds of tiny steel pellets which rip, shred, maim and blind. Anti-personnel bombs do not discriminate between soldiers and old women and small boys walking behind the family water buffalo...
...Poseidon submarine carries 16 missiles. Each missile carries ten separate warheads; each warhead has about twice the destructive capability of the atomic weapon which destroyed Hiroshima. So one American submarine can destroy 160 Soviet cities, a threat which is surely sufficient to deter a Soviet leader with any shred of rationality...