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...were conducted on the eighth grade level. I learned that helicopters are really an amazing innovation: it's a brand new kind of war over there. They keep pounding it into your head that in Vietnam there is no front. You can just as likely be killed by a sniper when you step off the plane as you can out in the woods outside the city or in the Delta region. One of the friends I graduated with from high school was a medic and four days after he went into Vietnam he was missing in action. I've known...
...three per cent of the cases he had seen, Lettvin said, taking drugs had brought on a form of epilepsy, similar to the type which affilicted Charles Whitman, the Texas sniper. "Real Dostoyevsky if you want to see what it is like," he recommended...
...loading and has fewer parts to jam. It is so efficient that some individual U.S. soldiers have taken captured AK-47s for their own use in battle, relying on captured arms caches to keep themselves in ammunition. The Viet Cong boast two other 7.62-mm. sharpshooter rifles-one a sniper's weapon and the other a semiautomatic rifle that is rated excellent by U.S. arms experts...
Diminishing Numbers. Next morning Leoni sent hundreds of combat-equipped national police troopers storming into the previously inviolate campus of Caracas' Central University, which has long served as a haven for Red activists. A cacophony of student jeers, punctuated by sniper shots, greeted the police, but they quickly seized all key university buildings and began a search for arms and Reds, while a battalion of regular army troops threw a cordon around the campus. It was a rich haul: some 800 suspects, including the 15 leaders of the Communist youth organization and a number of wanted criminals...
...witness, Governor Connally, have publicly joined the ranks of the doubters. The theory behind the Report's conclusions, they affirm, is implausible given the evidence available. All that can be said now for the Report is that no concrete evidence points to the existence of a second sniper; but neither has any internally consistent theory yet been presented to explain how Oswald alone killed Kennedy...