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...barter proposal had been cleared by the U.S. departments of Defense, State and Treasury. The military equipment that would be bartered includes General Dynamics' F-16 fighters, McDonnell Douglas/Northrop's F-18s and Boeing's electronics-jammed Airborne Warning and Control System (a sort of flying command center...
Katherine Fanning's Anchorage Daily News has a circulation of 15,500, a staff of 20 (including the receptionist) and an editor-publisher who, until her husband died in 1971 and left her in command, could have rated herself as little more than a cub reporter. The morning daily does not have its own presses, rarely runs more than 20 pages an issue and has long been overshadowed by its afternoon competitor, the Times (circ. 45,000). Yet last week Fanning's tiny paper edged out some of the nation's leading dailies to win journalism...
...Hanoi newspapers have lately been publishing a serial account of last year's conquest of South Viet Nam. Written by North Vietnamese Chief of Staff General Van Tien Dung-second in military command to Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap-the remarkably candid narrative offers an intimate glimpse of North Vietnamese thoughts on the successful offensive. Some of Dung's main disclosures...
Dave Bixby, number two man for the varsity, caught a bad crab around the 800 meter mark, which allowed Penn to creep back to within a half seat of the Crimson. But the boat regrouped, and quickly retook command of the situation. Twenty strokes later, Bixby's oar decided that once was not enough, as it dove back in the traditionally horrendous Severn for a second helping--this time, a boat-stopping crab...
...hour before the 3 p.m. final, a driving rainstorm struck Lake Quinsigamond. The 'Cliffe started poorly, nearly catching three crabs in the whitecapped water. Dartmouth established command early, and was never threatened thereafter...