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Given a fighting force composed of knights too fat for their armor, horses too old to stand up, and soldiers a draft board would stamp instant 4-F, Ulysses S. Grant himself could not stir up a convincing battle. All the more amazing, then, that a 58-year-old, 5-ft. 1-in. woman can. But then, Opera Director Margherita Wallmann does not map her strategy in the thick of enemy attack but to the friendly strains of Prokofiev and Verdi, Puccini and Mozart...
...amply armed with Chinese-made automatic weapons-usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun. He is supported by light and medium mortars, bazooka-style rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and artillery that in performance ranks with the best in the world. As to armor and transport, Mao's millions are woefully underequipped. Some 4,000 Russian T-34 tanks are still operating, but though that machine was first-rank armor during the Korean War, it is now obsolete. Still, armor would be of little use to any army fighting in Southeast Asia...
...were shut in accordance with instructions is sued days before. From rooftops, from dark corners, behind Corinthian columns, Secret Service men with guns and electronic gadgetry and TV scanners gazed at the growing throngs. They guarded the speaker's stand in the east plaza of the Capitol, where armor plate braced the floor and 1½-in.-thick bullet proof glass formed a waist-high railing...
Mass Raids. At week's end Nasser's response was all that Sallal could have hoped for. Armor and artillery poured into Yemen's ports from a flotilla of ships; ammunition and troop reinforcements arrived by transport plane from Cairo. Once again Nasser's fighter planes made mass raids on royalist strongholds in the mountains. As they have for the past two years, the royalists endured the pounding. When it was over, they crawled from caves and foxholes to dance and sing...
...aphorisms ("When you are only half of something, you are really half of nothing"), which eventually works its way toward a modern message: "Never feel guilty about having warm human feelings toward anyone." The episodes are surprisefully plotted and seek variety in the bizarre: next week a knight in armor rides out the purple sage and rams his lance through a stagecoach door...