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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Roddy McDowall plays a blackmailer in "The Fatal Mistake." His victim, Arthur Hill, raises reptiles; desperation drives him and his pets to strike. Repeat...
...immediate cause of the Bonn confrontation was the fatal shooting of Student Benno Ohnesorg, 26, during the anti-Shah rioting. His death by a police bullet has elevated him to martyrdom; the New Left now talks of him the way angry West Germans talked of Peter Fechter, who was killed by East German border guards at the Berlin Wall five years ago. West Berlin's police chief (since furloughed) hardly helped matters when he called the anti-Shah crowd "a liverwurst . . . You press it in the middle to squeeze it out at the end." To the distress...
...become more immune to chemical insecticides, scientists are developing other weapons against them. Like sex. By encouraging the mating of mosquitoes that are incapable of producing offspring, a West German scientist has wiped out the disease-bearing mosquito population of a Burmese village. And, the attraction that proved so fatal in Burma, he reported to a recent health conference in Washington, can have similar results elsewhere...
...quickly? Much of the answer can be found in the almost incredible lack of Arab planning, coordination and communications. Despite their swift defeat in 1956, this time the Arabs seemed to expect a long, leisurely war of attrition. Though two squadrons of Algerian MIG-21s arrived, they were a fatal 24 hours too late because Egyptian commanders had failed to instruct them which airbase to head for. In retrospect, it might have been even worse if they had arrived in time for the Israeli raids. Five planeloads of Moroccan troops actually got to Cairo, but five others were grounded...
...magazines together upside down; after one magazine is burnt out, it can be swiftly inverted and the other inserted. The added weight of the second magazine, however, is enough to draw the lip of the first magazine out of true, and can lead to a bent round and a fatal jam. Moreover, Delta mud, jungle gunk, and the grit blown up by helicopter rotors demand the rifleman's constant attention...