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...boozy Commander Kirk Douglas is at sea, his wife (Barbara Bouchet) is at play, behaving like a one-woman luau. She shakes her hips at an Air Force major, lures him away for a nude swim, wakes up on the beach next morning in bleary panic as enemy planes strafe the sand and the holocaust at Pearl Harbor begins...
There was abundant additional evidence of U.S. determination to increase the cost of what it calls Hanoi's "continuing aggression" against the south. U.S. jets continued to bomb and strafe Viet Cong guerrillas within South Viet Nam-something they had not been doing until two weeks ago. Others flew over Laos regularly in raids aimed at demolishing the jungle roads that the Reds are building to facilitate troop and supply movements. Moreover, U.S. pilots were flying missions under new "rules of engagement" authorizing hot pursuit of enemy jets right into Red China, if necessary...
...then the Charger's job is no more modern than its look; the turboprop plane is a jungle fighter, a volunteer for the brush-fire wars of today's world. It can strafe a target at 50 m.p.h., yet escape from danger at eight times that speed. It can airlift a ton of cargo or a fully armed squad of paratroopers, take off from a bumpy jungle airfield less than 500 ft. long, land on a strip only 100 ft. in length. For all its old-fashioned air, though, from its twin-boom fuselage to its lofty, boxlike...
Tempers calmed slightly in Athens and Ankara. Turkey made the gesture of returning to NATO control the U.S.-built planes it had used to bomb and strafe Cyprus. Greece, which had also withdrawn units from NATO, followed suit. Cyprus itself had a breather. Though still calling down curses on Turkey for its recent air strikes, Makarios relaxed somewhat the blockade thrown around the Turkish Cypriot communities. For the first time in two weeks, running water was restored to the huddled refugees in Ktima, and badly needed fuel was delivered to Turkish Cypriot bakeries in Nicosia...
...also occasionally flown by Americans). At the controls of one T-28 operating in the Ruzizi Valley near the Congo's eastern frontier recently was a lanky, 30-year-old ex-Marine pilot named Ed Dearborn from Gardena, Calif. His partner, also flying four flights a day to strafe the rebels, was another American, Don Coney. They are civilians, technically listed as hired hands of the harassed Leopoldville government...