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...kind of synthetic dyes used in camouflage fabrics. "When I see that kind of dye," he explained, "it shines like new money." Peering through binoculars, he soon spotted, clear as neon, the important details of a neatly concealed Jordanian gun emplacement a mile away. Using Jones as a spotter, the Israelis quickly knocked out the guns and began the march that a day and a half later ended in the capture of Jerusalem's Old City...
...Their Knees. Even so, more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting...
...protest, President Johnson personally requested an explanation, asking U.S. officials in Saigon to answer three questions: 1) Were there Viet Cong in the hamlet? 2) Were the inhabitants forced by the Viet Cong to remain in the hamlet during the attack? 3) Did Viet Cong shoot at a spotter plane that directed the strike? The answer to all three questions, according to American spokesmen, was yes-and illustrated the tragic dilemma of fighting an anti-guerrilla war. Said one experienced U.S. military official: "We're just going to have to go into the Delta and winkle them...
...other acquaintances, Marion is kooky like a fox. A shrewd art spotter (and haggler), she has furnished their $150,000, twelve-room Park Avenue coop with a couple of Venards, a Man Ray sculpture, a Guardi, a Pol Bury kinetic, a Yaacov Agam (her newest and proudest acquisition), and some superlative samples of pop and op.*In the library of the Javitses' Park Avenue place there also hangs a striking, feline oil of Marion by Boris Chaliapin. The mouth is sensual and slightly parted, the eyes tigerish and burning bright. But why, the startled subject asked on seeing the finished...
Unhappily for Cuesta, he and his bold little band had walked right into one of Cuba's biggest states of alert since the Bay of Pigs. All around the island, armed troops and civilians alike were watching coastlines, spotter planes were poised for takeoff and Havana radio was crackling with a call to arms -as part of a new Castro effort to cook up a crisis with...