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...better and better at this sort of thing," says Charles M. Herzfeld, until recently director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. "I think that it is really our secret weapon." Still, there are plenty of bugs in the system: rats, dogs, or even rainfall can trigger the gadgets-and it rains an average of 120 inches during the monsoon. Other zones will be swept by radar. Hair-thin trip wires, mine fields and conventional barbed-wire entanglements will block several notorious invasion routes...
...Novelist Constantine FitzGibbon, intellectuals tend to follow a double standard. If the war happens to trigger their emotions, they don't worry much about moral behavior. "If the struggle is remote," he writes, "it can be viewed as an intellectual exercise and a moral problem. Stern judgments can then be handed down, and safely. It would seem that for the run-of-the-mill intellectual, the less he knows about a complex issue far away the stronger his moral judgments...
...were heavy from mines and machine guns: at least one in ten was killed before the Israelis who made it to the summit plunged into the tunnels to hunt down the defenders. At one point, an Israeli and a Syrian officer came face to face. The Israeli pulled the trigger of his Uzzi submachine gun. It was empty. The Syrian jerked the trigger on his Soviet assault rifle. It, too, was empty. With that, the Israeli clubbed the Syrian down with his Uzzi...
Even so, the Viet Cong recruiters have their standards. Any man under 4 ft. 10 in. is rejected, as are those with kinfolk fighting for the government, those with such ailments as stomach trouble, tuberculosis, asthma or an amputated trigger finger. To avoid infiltration by government spies, one captured document enjoined against recruiting former ARVN volunteers, Roman Catholics, and "those young men whose father or mother were killed by the Revolution, landlords' sons, and those whose parents, brothers and sisters were tyrants, opponents and distributors of the Revolution...
...among themselves; the British frigate they were supposed to board swung at anchor off Antigua. But sooner or later the combined expedition from Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago and Barbados expects to sail to Anguilla and restore the authority of St. Kitts' Premier, Robert Bradshaw, whose highhanded rule helped trigger the revolt. If it does, warned Anguilla's new President, Ronald Webster, it will be a "direct challenge...