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...Communist infiltration route from Cambodia last week when its men stopped to rest. Suddenly, the jungle erupted in mortar explosions and gunfire as the company ran into an ambush set by a North Vietnamese battalion. Rising to a half-crouch to direct the defense, the company commander took a bullet under his left eye and fell dead. Within minutes, all the company's officers had been either killed or wounded, many by snipers lashed in tall trees to steady their aim. Though nearly half the U.S. force was killed or wounded in the three-hour battle, they held...
Marcus says he first became interested in the photographs "three or four days" after the assassination. He followed closely as the newspapers and the government slowly shifted from entrance wound to exit wound and to the remarkable "single-bullet" theory...
Soon it was full combat between police and snipers in the hall. Some 500 police stormed the dormitory, pouring more than 3,000 rounds of shotgun and carbine fire into the building. Officer Dale Dugger, 32, took a bullet wound in the cheek. Patrolman Louis Kuba, 25, was hit in the forehead and died six hours later. "It looked like the Alamo," said one policeman. Somehow, only one student was wounded. After the cops had raged through the dormitory, virtually all of its 144 rooms were wrecked-TV sets kicked in, clothes destroyed and even the housemother's sewing...
...tests in Nevada, U.S. weapons scientists are confident that they have finally conceived an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system that can be effective. Sidestepping the complex problem of directly intercepting an attacking 17,000-m.p.h. intercontinental ballistic missile with a defensive missile -a feat equivalent to hitting a flying bullet with another bullet-they have designed a system that will use great bursts of X rays from exploding nuclear warheads to destroy enemy missiles at a distance...
...found days later on a dead Red. Kirby, who was carrying only a flare pistol, escaped by blasting a skirmisher between the eyes with his last flare. One of his buddies survived by playing dead. It was not surprising that the deception fooled the enemy troops: a Red bullet had torn through his left ear and out his nose...