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...vicious puppet troopers come into a village and are mauled by the guerrillas. Two of them are killed, and the rest flee. How many troopers flee...
...After a firefight, you find one American invader wounded by a spike trap, two vicious henchmen blown up by a grenade booby trap and five puppet soldiers shattered by a mine. How many dead and wounded are there...
...rice fields and marsh es that ring Saigon, they wait. No one in the city knows exactly when they will come again, but everyone expects them. Saigon is bracing for a new on slaught by Communist troops, fearing that this time it may be even more pro longed and vicious than either the Tet or early May offensives. High-level defectors have said that a major Communist drive is in the making, and last week's relative silence on the battleground around the capital ominously underscored the point. As always when girding for a big campaign, the Communists...
...appears to give much thought to revolt," writes François Nourissier in The French, which obviously went to press too soon. "Our young people are not brutal or rebellious or vicious or despairing or drugged or headed for extremist adventures. Indifferent? Yes. Nihilistic? No." Events since May seem to have proved Nourissier wrong, but curiously enough, they have in no way invalidated this splendidly instructive book. With affection and impeccable style, Novelist Nourissier (Une Histoire Française) shows his countrymen to be a gifted, cantankerous and immensely vital people, whose only predictable quality is their very unpredictability...
...only interim paper to survive, the Detroit American, fanned the hysteria. Converted from a Polish-language daily to an English one in April, it has built up a claimed 178,500 circulation by concentrating on crime. "Crummy vicious street punks continued to rob and beat pedestrians over the weekend," began a typical story. Another told of a Miami socialite who had learned how to shoot after being robbed four times...