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...missions and to explore the possibilities of a genuinely effective underground inside Cuba. When Castro boasts that he has captured and executed CIA men, he is often telling the truth. Other than that, the U.S. is content to watch Cuba with high-flying U-2s and an occasional supersonic treetop dash by Air Force RF-101 or Navy RA-5C reconnaissance jets. Should Castro shoot down one of the jets with his Soviet-supplied SAM II missiles, the U.S. contingency plan is to "take out" -meaning obliterate-the specific SAM site involved. The plan, as of now, does not call...
Director Alexander Mackendrick keeps a tight hold on the story, smoothly matching it to the rhythm and color of strange locales-from teeming river ports to the wild game country where Sammy spends one dark African night silhouetted in a treetop, loudly and desperately singing "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?" But young McClelland projects courage without cuteness, and he is aided by consistently pungent dialogue. Forced to cope with the adult world, Sammy grows tough and wily, even puts on a bit, as when he embroiders details of his life at Port...
...long been used by North Viet Nam's Reds to truck men and guns to the Pathet Lao (up to 400 vehicles a day), in open violation of Laos' neutrality accords. To get closeups of the latest influx, the supersonic reconnaissance craft flat-hatted in at virtually treetop level, at slowpoke speeds of perhaps 450 m.p.h., and often from the same predictable angles...
...hours after the Viet Cong occupied the town, government marines, airlifted to the scene in U.S. helicopters, counterattacked. Half the marine force blocked the Reds' escape route and attacked their sandbagged positions. Armed helicopters unloaded some 80 rockets into the Communist defenses, and fighter planes zoomed in at treetop level with guns blazing. When the Reds finally disappeared into the paddies after an all-day fight, they left behind 60 dead. The government's marines were also badly battered; 48 were killed by the time the shooting stopped...
Accra was in a state of emergency. Thousands of steel-helmeted soldiers in full battle kit ringed the city while rifle-toting security cops raced from house to house in search of arms and explosives. By day, reconnoitering army helicopters whirred at treetop level. At night, the city was stilled by a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Censorship was clamped on outgoing dispatches. So grave was the situation that a long-scheduled visit by India's Prime Minister Nehru was called off for the humiliating reason that Ghanaian police could not guarantee his safety...