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...finally fought their way through to junction in Hagaru, to the south, after running into bloody ambushes along the roads. The Communists fired on them comfortably at steep grades and hairpin turns, where the marines' vehicles slowed to a crawl. A dreadful indication of the casualties in this sector was that 1,200 wounded were flown out in the first two days...
...journalist," he once said, "I am in command of a small sector in the very front trenches of this battle for freedom." For Henry Robinson Luce, the battle ended last week. On the 44th anniversary of TIME'S first issue, America's greatest maker of magazines died in Phoenix of a coronary occlusion...
...first day of battle in response to a plea from Nasser, Jordan opened a second front. Mortar and artillery shells rumbled down from the heights of Arab Jerusalem to splatter the Israeli sector. No part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of The King David Hotel...
...fell two years behind its development timetable while its price rose sharply. The task force report says the system has not worked, will not work, and should never have been expected to work. Dated June 1983 but circulated last week by the Project on Military Procurement, a nonprofit defense sector watchdog, the report analyzes the computer system that was supposed to seek out the infrared "signatures" of enemy targets. In fact, the computer would have run up, in the report's words, "a monumental false alarm rate," and might be fooled by even the most primitive measures, like camouflaging...
...last week's chaos, there were efforts to open a productive dialogue. Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila and an outspoken critic of Marcos, called for the formation of a National Reconciliation Council made up of representatives from the government, the church, the opposition and the private sector. He further sought free elections, a free press and release of political prisoners. Sin described his proposal as the last chance to avoid a "bloody revolution." Marcos dismissed the growing unrest as a transitory aberration, but he asked for a meeting with Sin to discuss the proposal...