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...Twelve Americans were among the 42 persons killed in the terrorist bombing of the fashionable My Canh (Beautiful Scenery) restaurant, actually a converted houseboat anchored near a Saigon River bank. The force of the blast hurled diners through plate-glass windows, left the decks of the vessel awash with blood and strewn with bod ies. In an agony of grief, a Vietnamese man held up the dead body of his little boy, begged photographers to picture...
...pucker at the aftertaste. His subjects are the Thornton children, a quintet of improper Victorians who, along with two Creole friends, are packed off from Jamaica to be properly educated in England. En route they are inadvertently abducted when their ship is hijacked and they wander aboard the pirate vessel, manned by a dissolute captain (Anthony Quinn), his raffish mate (James Coburn) and a crew of inept, superstitious ruffians...
There are an estimated 80,000 vessels of all kinds plying the South Vietnamese coasts. The Junk Patrol is reported to conduct 12,000 searches per month. This would mean each boat is searched only 1.8 times a year. If a gun carrier is approached by a South Vietnamese vessel intent on a search, what would be simpler than slipping the evidence quietly over the side? And if the gun carrier were operating by night, there would be no earthly way to catch...
...later development of obstructive deposits containing calcium and cholesterol. What is responsible for these deposits is one of the basic questions not yet answered. In this area, DeBakey's work first dealt with shutdowns in the abdominal section of the aorta, because there the big blood vessel could be clamped shut well beyond the point where arteries branch off to supply the brain. The lower part of the body could be deprived of its blood supply long enough to let the surgeons cut out the diseased section and replace it with knit Dacron tubing. When the heart-lung machine...
...Italian Line, which depends on an annual subsidy of some $20 million from the government. Even if booked solid, charged Italian Air Force General Giuseppe Valle, the twin ships will lose $80,000 on every voyage. Italian Line's director general Giuseppe Ali says that each vessel will run an "operational" profit when filled to 60% of its 1,700-passenger capacity, but his figures do not count amortizing the $60 million cost of each ship. Still, argues Ali: "We must not be viewed only as producers of revenue but also as supporters of touristic development...