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Horseshoe Trap. According to New Delhi, the major Pakistani counterattack was directed at the Indians before Kasur, which was chosen as the target because a Pakistani breakthrough would permit either a drive toward New Delhi or an attack northward that would cut across the Indian rear. The assault was mounted by the 1st Armored Division, reputed to be the best in the Pakistan army. The Indian strategy resembled that of Hannibal when he caught the Romans in a baglike trap and decimated them at Cannae. The Pakistani armored column burst through the first Indian line and plunged on only...
...foolhardy sniper who leaped out of a camouflaged hole one evening last week and fired a shot at a group of U.S. marines on the prowl for the Viet Cong. His zeal was costly. Approaching the "spider trap," the marines tossed in some grenades, and out popped four willing prisoners. Suddenly another burst of gunfire came from the hole. Big hole, the marines shrugged, tossing in more grenades. When the concealed V.C. responded with still another fusillade, a U.S. demolition squad provided a real blast, using dynamite this time. When the smoke cleared, the marines clambered down into the hole...
...suspected supply base for guerrillas operating in the area. At dawn of Piranha's first day, big naval guns pounded Batangan's beaches from offshore. Then an American amphibious force slipped ashore, while Vietnamese marines and army troops helicoptered inland to close the trap, and a U.S. Marine unit choppered down atop Batangan's commanding 660-ft.-high hill...
...looked as if a trap had been set for one of the nation's ten most wanted criminals. Lurking beside a crowded New York City parkway one noon last week were four busloads of police brass, 125 newsmen and a dozen patrolmen, including six cops in two prowl cars casing every passing motorist...
...Orientals bent on making a human sacrifice out of Ringo, who has become inextricably attached to a mysterious ring. There they are superpursued by a mad scientist who is convinced that the ring will enable him to rule the world. Between here and there, the Beatles romp triumphantly through trap doors, poison gas, poisoned arrows, death rays, flamethrowers, shrinking drugs, a man-eating tiger and a men's-room hand dryer that goes into reverse with suction so strong that it pulls the plumbing off the walls...