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...five children, wounded 21 other women. Then the Reds mutilated several of the bodies, carving out the victims' hearts and spleens. The government retaliated with less savage successes of its own. Three hundred miles north of Saigon, Rangers overran a Viet Cong ordnance depot, capturing 166 weapons, TNT, and 1,000 detonators. Twenty miles north of the capital, a self-defense corps post even tried a bit of Viet Cong-type cunning. Getting word that the Reds planned to cut the post's barbed-wire fence by night and stage a raid, the corpsmen lay in ambush outside...
...originally invited her to Los Angeles to speak, Mme. Nhu departed owing nearly half of her $2,000 bill at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (the manager did not seem worried about collecting). Following her by mail was a stack of books, among them To Live Again and TNT: The Power Within You; How to Release the Forces Inside you and Get What You Want...
...ready warheads, more than 25,000 are "tactical"-designed for short-range (mostly under 30 miles) battlefield or defensive use. Many are tiny power-packages of less than a kiloton (equal to 1,000 tons of TNT) that could be sent on slender, supersonic missiles to wipe out a company, sink a ship or shoot down planes...
Mother Courage, by Bertolt Brecht, is intellectual TNT by Broadway standards. In the title role, Anne Bancroft pulls her canteen wagon across the face of Europe during the Thirty Years War and tragically loses her three children. Brecht's reflections on peace and war are deeply ironic, but Anne Bancroft lacks the depth for her part...
...Holy Loch, Scotland, each toting 16 missiles. To replace the 15 Jupiters in Turkey and the 30 in Italy, the U.S. plans to deploy possibly six subs in Mediterranean waters. Total firepower: 96 missiles, each with a nuclear-tipped warhead packing the equivalent of 800,000 tons of TNT. Compared with Jupiter's 1,500-mile reach, the current Polaris missiles have a range of 1,380 to 1,725 miles, and before long the subs will get A-3 models with a 2,875-mile range. Though Moscow is hard at work on antisub devices, U.S. experts...