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...Orleans, America's most hedonistic city, the humid air last week was laden with the stench of death, the streets overlaid by a fetid crust of mud. Day after day, as the floodwaters seeped back into the Mississippi, armed police and health crews pursued the macabre task of recovering human bodies and countless animal carcasses. They shot hundreds of snakes-and two alligators -that had been swept up from the swamps and dumped into the city by Hurricane Betsy. Dozens of citizens had been bitten by stray dogs crazed by hunger and salt water...
...deserted and its inhabitants scattered over the countryside," Rademaekers reported. "Buzzards wheel overhead and settle with a flourish of wings on the swollen carcasses of water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath the mud bricks and roof tiles of shattered houses. A few Pakistani police patrol the streets to prevent looting but, otherwise, Kasur is a blend of stomach-turning smells and silence...
...patrol maybe twenty times or more and nothin', just nothin'. Then, the twenty-first time, zap, zap, zap, you get hit-and Victor Charlie fades into the jungle before you can close with him." Frustrating as it was for the men slogging through the mud and rain, Ben Cat was a job that had to be done: in the burgeoning role of the U.S. in Viet Nam, the Iron Triangle is as vital for its real estate value tomorrow as for the number of Viet Cong killed today...
...same air of stern determination spread through Rawalpindi. Civil servants worked round the clock, and on the desks of key officials lay a blue volume of contingency papers labeled "War Book." Auto headlights were dimmed with smears of mud and cow dung, and trucks were camouflaged with leafy branches. For three successive nights, Indian bombers struck at Karachi's harbor installations, and the wail of air-raid sirens blended with the sobbing call to prayer of muezzins atop minarets. A bitter Pakistani official said, "Let's fight it out and get it over with. Either we become slaves of India...
...Savannah Jr.: the $419,460 All-American Futurity for quarter horses, richest horse race in the world; at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. A 12-1 long shot, Savannah Jr. sped 400 yds. "through the mud in 20.3 sec. to score an easy 21-length victory, earn $192,730 -or roughly...