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...rebels rapidly captured the airport, radio station and central bank without firing a shot. Ma headed for the airport, where he and three other pilots commandeered T-28 propeller-driven fighters, which they used to bomb and strafe the army's Chainimo garrison just outside the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Awaited Coup | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...Viet Cong took a few shots at a U.S. plane as it passed over a village. An hour and a half later, U.S. jets swooped down to strafe and bomb, hitting some villagers. After the raid, townspeople menaced the prisoners with clubs and pitchforks. "They would have killed us if the guards had not stopped them. I saw women holding little children saturated with blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: The Saintly and the Sadists | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...well. The King's plane was to have been shot down over water, thus appearing to be an accident. What about the phone call at the airport control tower? Presumably at that point Oufkir had realized that his plot had failed and he ordered the jets to strafe the King on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Et Tu, Oufkir? | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

FRITZ THE CAT is more than a hot-shot college feline chasing tail and getting pussy. It's a zoot-suited, claw-wagging crow shuffling to a Harlem bugaloo. It's three Mickey Mice breaking into cheers as USAF jets strafe New York City. It's stoned eagle at a Village dope party, and a mare raped by a sadistic leftist rabbit. It's pure unadulterated funk, and, aside from riots in the street--I can't think of much that suits the present moment better...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fritz Don't Profess Any Graces | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

Severe malnutrition underlies all other Biafrian diseases. Severe anemia is widespread among children and pregnant women. Infectious diseases, including meales especially, hit hardest at the very young and the elderly. Tuberculosis, malaria, and dysentery also are prevalent. Hospitals are not only consistently bombed, but airplanes come in low and strafe the fleeing patients and staff...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Who Cares About Biafra Anyway? | 2/25/1969 | See Source »

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