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...them moved into a range of 8,000 yds. off the Maddox's starboard quarter and headed toward her stern. The Maddox has twin-mounted 5-in. 38s aft and two twin-mounts forward. Ogier could either swing the Maddox broadside and train one forward pair and the aft pair on the two boats or stay on course and keep the ship's tail toward them. This would permit him to fire at only one boat at a time, but it would provide a slimmer target for enemy torpedoes...
Ogier swung the ship to port. The torpedoes passed 100 yds. to starboard. For a farewell blast, the two boats sprayed away futilely with their 25-mm. machine guns, turned tail and headed toward the north...
...South Vietnamese capital was jolted by a roar from the harbor. There, the 9,800-ton U.S. aircraft-transport ship Card was sinking fast -it touched bottom in just 24 minutes-into the silt of the Saigon River, a 28-ft. by 3-ft. hole ripped in her starboard side. Apparently Viet Cong agents had placed plastic charges on the hull 10 ft. below the water line...
Accepting the limits of action offered by only three characters aboard one small sloop, Director Roman Polanski sends his inquisitive camera whirring from port to starboard, bow to stern, up the mast. He shoots over shoulders and behind heads, composing frame after intimate frame through which his unholy trinity inevitably reveal themselves. Every twitch of an eyelid tells a small, stinging truth. Man, woman and boy abrade one another until a climactic fight for possession of the knife abruptly exposes the very quick of character. Despising her husband, in his absence the cool young wife gives herself...
...Russia-aimed bomb on board. At the throttle is a German and at the rudder a Briton. Luxembourgeois, Belgians and Dutchmen run the galley, and a Frenchman (if he can be enticed on board at all) is topside yelling "to port" while an Italian beside him shouts "to starboard." Use of the Bomb itself would happen only on U.S. orders. To Gaullists, U.S. insistence on a seaborne MLF, rather than one based on solid ground in Europe (which U.S. NATO commanders have always wanted), means further evidence that essentially the U.S. is thinking about disengagement from the Continent...