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...Mekong Delta region, a Communist band stormed the military outpost of Minh Duc, inflicting "heavy" losses on the defenders. Only 18 miles from President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital of Saigon, a U.S. military adviser on a training patrol with Vietnamese Rangers was wounded by a Viet Cong sniper. In the jungle north of the capital, a 500-man paratroop battalion was ambushed at the end of a three-hour forced march by 1,000 Communists armed with Soviet weapons. At a cost of 20 dead and "numerous" wounded, the paratroopers fought their way out of the trap...
...point, the commander of the column moving south from Luangprabang unleashed 135 rounds of 105-mm howitzer shells at a "suspected sniper." Later, atop a hill, he sent a massive artillery barrage crashing into the unscouted jungle ahead, declaring that "this will scare them off"-and it soon did. Closing on the key road junction of Phou Khoun, the troops from the north and a column from Vientiane raked the junction from both sides...
...city for another few days. She refuses, yet he pursues her in a strange and melancholy journey through the city. At one point she begins to tell him of an affair she had had with a German soldier during the war. The soldier was killed by a French sniper and shortly thereafter she went mad. Even at the time of the story, she is slightly mad, retreating into her insanity as she retreats back in her thoughts to the time...
Later, Gary noticed that leaves were fluttering from the trees, realized that bullets were cutting them down. "We might have run-but it is not etiquette to run, and very little good." Often the target of snipers, he created a truism about them: "The sniper waits for the failure of the imagination and shoots you because you have forgotten that you must believe...
NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by Vladimir Nabokov (214 pp.; Doubleday; $3.50), follows Lolita, the cannon shot heard round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that...