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...forces engaged on the rugged, inhospitable terrain of northern Viet Nam were the object of intense scrutiny by military analysts last week. In Washington, a task force raised from the U.S. intelligence community began meeting within hours of the Chinese invasion, evaluating what data could be obtained from military communiques and by satellite observation of the battle scene. In Moscow, strategists were equally attentive to the broader implications of the war. How well the People's Liberation Army does in its first real combat test since the Korean War nearly 30 years ago could provide clues to its capability...
...Chinese have about 10,000 tanks, compared to Viet Nam's 900. But the mountainous terrain of last week's fighting precludes the use of tanks except in very narrow corridors, and China's aged T-34 tanks are vulnerable to the extremely accurate Sagger antitank missiles supplied to the Vietnamese by the Soviet Union in the past three years. The Chinese have nothing comparable to the Sagger. "This is one of their major combat deficiencies, which they are trying to correct by buying HOT (antitank) missiles from the French," notes one U.S. expert...
...Vietnamese air force is vastly inferior to the Chinese in quantity, but the quality is vastly superior. Hanoi has 300 combat aircraft in all; about 700 Chinese planes are within striking range of Viet Nam. Most of those ready for combat, however, are outdated MiG-17s and MiG-19s, whereas the Vietnamese have not only the slightly more advanced MiG-21s but also the versatile F-5 "freedom fighters" captured from the Americans...
Perot, who once tried to deliver Christmas presents and dinners to American P.O.W.s in North Viet Nam, says that he took matters into his own hands. As Perot tells the story, former Green Beret Colonel Arthur ("Bull") Simons, leader of the daring but unsuccessful raid on the Son Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam in 1970, agreed to lead a band of 14 volunteer commandos in an assault on the prison. After deciding that the unit was too small for the job, claims Perot, he arranged for a mob to do the job. There was indeed a prison break...
...ward for brain-bruised war veterans. In a series of blackout scenes, Richard Bowne, Leo Burmester and Daniel Ziskie place banderillas of rage, revenge and practical jokery in each other's heads, but their heads are the arena from which they will never escape. In Lone Star, a Viet Nam veteran named Roy (Patrick Tovatt) longs to escape from a changed Texas and preserve the past of his youthful high jinks. He loves to guzzle beer and maul his button-headed brother Ray (Leo Burmester), and worships his 1959 pink Thunderbird convertible. When that is totaled by Cletis (Peter...