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...roof of a cell block for nearly three hours and then made a mad dash for two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. Huntsville guards opened fire immediately, emptying nearly 20 rounds. All the prisoners froze in their tracks and fell to the ground shaken but unhit--all except Martin E. Gurule, who scaled both walls (using either clothing or a blanket to protect himself from the razor wire) and escaped into the nearby forest...
...Some 500,000 people, said McNamara, have had to be di verted from other tasks to repair bomb damage. Since the President has authorized attacks on 85% of the 359 targets chosen by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, few really damaging targets remain. True, four airfields are as yet unhit, but only an estimated 20 MIGs are now operating from North Vietnamese fields. The clear implication is that the rest of Hanoi's air force now nests in China and attacks from Chinese bases...
...slugs killed Police Constable Sidney Miles. The cops, prohibited by English law from carrying firearms, had to rush a man to the nearest station house to sign an emergency application and get a pistol. When it arrived, Detective-Constable Fairfax opened fire. Craig, unhit but scared, jumped 25 feet to the ground and was captured...
...mind of the Kamikaze flyer who succeeds or of the flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects. The plane comes down streaming flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness as it falls. Another swoops in a long, low slant, just clears the heads of the crew, chops into the water like a spent dart: U.S. sailors, with the bemused fixity...
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