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They usually move in groups of 30 to 40. Led by guides from one jungle "station" to the next, the North Vietnamese start their six-month trek down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a labyrinthine maze of many paths, which U.S. advisers prefer to call "a line of drift...
Before long, "suppressive fire" became something else. Not waiting to be shot at, U.S. jets began blasting Red targets-mainly along Route 7, the principal convoy link from Communist North Viet Nam to the Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs...
...tactical objective of the strike near Ban Ban was confined solely to Laos. The bridge over the Nam Mat was instrumental in maintaining the flow of Red supplies to the Pathet Lao-the stretch of Route 7 that was hit is too distant to form part of the Ho Chi Minh trail to the south. But the demonstration of U.S. power would undoubtedly have its positive psychological effect in South Viet Nam, where there is concern that the U.S. might pull...
...final yank. If expertly performed, this maneuver freezes the lefthand symbol, usually brings up a corresponding symbol on the second reel as well. If not, repetition of the process-and more change-will. A few more coins, a few more pulls to bring the third reel round, and hi-ho, Silver...
...mask and leaning on a couple of canes. "How do you do?" says Gielgud to her. "How do I do what?" she says. That bit of dialogue was exchanged between Snow White and Grumpy in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ah, so, heigh-ho. Gielgud is Snow White, and sensual Alice is Grumpy. But isn't she really the Virgin Mary? Doesn't she wear the Madonna's blue and hold him in the precise attitude of the Pieta as he dies? So he must be Grumpy then, and Grumpy must...