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...told by Artime in Panama afterwards, the men landed at night from two heavily armed torpedo boats. At a signal, one group attacked the militia garrison assisted by machine gun and recoilless rifle fire from the boats, thus pinning down most of the troops. An other group then fought its way to the radar station and destroyed most of the equipment with antitank weapons. The action lasted 55 minutes be fore the commandos escaped safely out to sea and back to "a secret base somewhere in the Caribbean." His own group suffered no losses, Artime claimed; but he could...
...were no "doves" or "hawks" at this meeting. The possibility of shelling the northern seaport of Haiphong was discussed briefly, but it was discarded since it would involve civilian casualties and would require moving warships into territorial waters. McNamara suggested instead an air strike against five specific targets-four torpedo-boat bases and an oil storage facility. Rusk thought it might be wiser to hit two of the southernmost bases first and save the others for a possible second-stage attack. McCone argued for clobbering all five places, in view of the gravity of the North Vietnamese...
...recent buildup in these southeast concentrations. The Red Chinese air force, with some 2,000 jet fighters and bombers, is one of the world's largest, but is hampered by shortages of parts and fuel. And her navy is weak: she has 28 subs and about 170 torpedo boats; her largest ships are four destroyers...
Pinpoint Precision. Coolness is still one of the man's most notable characteristics. Last week, as the Asian crisis bore down on him, Admiral Grant Sharp, now 58, well-decorated and as slender and hard as a torpedo (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), described his activities and explained imperturbably: "These things are all thought out ahead of time. It is the culmination of a lot of planning, and the actual execution is fairly simple." True enough. But had he executed his orders with anything less than pinpoint precision, Sharp could well have triggered a disaster...
...Property." Of course they were this year's host club. But that could hardly account for the performance put on by Don Schollander, 18, a smooth-cheeked broth of a boy who favors gaudy red, white and blue swimsuits and starts like a torpedo out of a tube. In the 400-meter freestyle, he clipped nearly 1 sec. off the world record with a 4-min. 12.7-sec. clocking. Next he stepped up for the 200-meter freestyle -down went the record by nearly 1 sec., to 1 min. 57.6 sec. "I always think...