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...hoped that the self-righteous members of the cadet honor committee will, as officers, maintain the same rigid standards for themselves-an honor system that has some meaning in their military careers. That includes extreme honesty in the efficiency reports they dole out to others whom they command, and precludes deals with medical officers who will determine their "disabilities" at retirement in order to qualify them for tax-free pensions...
...Rhodesian army has set up scores of its barbed-wire-encrusted bunkers to protect vulnerable airstrips and command posts, and light planes scour the rough terrain to search for suspicious activity. To make their search easier, the government is evicting 15,000 resident blacks and creating a ten-mile-wide cordon sanitaire along Rhodesia's 800-mile frontier with the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the springboard for most of the guerrilla activity...
Saigon statisticians claimed that at least 821 enemy troops had been killed in action in the few days since Cease-Fire II had been signed, while ARVN losses totaled 218. By the Saigon command's own admission, however, most contacts in recent days have amounted only to mortar and rocket exchanges. What fighting has occurred has been limited to the Chuong Thien province in the Mekong Delta and Kontum in the Central Highlands. In the northerly I Corps area, virtually no combat has been reported. Said a Western diplomat: "The combat statistics show that incidents are only a fifth...
After spending a record 28 days 50 minutes in space, Skylab Astronauts Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz came home last week. They made a perfect splashdown in the Pacific some 830 miles southwest of San Diego. As the Apollo command ship bobbed gently in the rolling seas 6½ miles off the bow of the recovery ship Ticonderoga, Conrad radioed a message: "Everybody here is in super shape." Indeed, it was a flawless finish to a successful mission that only four weeks earlier had seemed doomed to failure...
...qualifying heat, Harvard broke to an immediate lead after the first ten strokes and appeared to be in command, at least temporarily, before judges called back the field at the 100-meter mark for a restart. When the heat was rerun the Crimson failed to stay close as both Huskies crews--Northeastern and Washington--advanced to the finals. Northeastern also had a winner in the finals of the fours-with...