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...heavy bombing raids. Their main target this time: the port of Haiphong, which had been off limits for U.S. planes since President Lyndon Johnson cut back the bombing of North Viet Nam four years ago. The planes dropped their bomb loads on fuel dumps, warehouses and, as the U.S. command in Saigon put it in an all-embracing phrase, "other activities which are supporting the invasion of South Viet Nam by North Vietnamese forces...
...unreal sense of well-being extended even to a dark, sandbagged burrow on the town's south side where ARVN Major, Tran Ai Quoc, had set up a command post. As his battery of radios crackled in the background, Quoc reported that the situation around the town was quiet. It had better be. His retinue of lieutenants and enlisted men had been drinking Ba Muoi Ba brand beer and De Kuyper crème de menthe. An attack then would have been a disaster...
...LIEUT. COMMANDER THOMAS KENNETH MATTINGLY II, U.S.N., 36, the COmmand-module pilot, has been the most conscientious member of the Apollo 16 crew during preflight training. With good reason, he leaves nothing to chance. Shortly before he was scheduled to make his first space flight aboard Apollo 13 two years ago, the longtime bachelor (he finally married in 1970) was accidentally exposed to the German measles. Because Mattingly had never had the disease or been immunized against it, NASA replaced him as command-module pilot rather than risk the first case of measles in space. Mattingly, who stayed behind...
...higher prices has not quenched Americans' wanderlust. Last year close to 3,000,000 Americans visited Europe, and travel-industry leaders expect about a 10% gain this year. For those who do go, moneymen offer some advice for stretching dollars. First, carry traveler's checks, which command a better exchange rate than cash does. Second, convert money at banks, which pay more for dollars than hotels do. Finally, pay immediately for foreign purchases rather than charge them. If the value of the dollar weakens further, the bill, when finally presented, may well be higher than expected...
Going Public. Once a worker decides to speak up, how should he go about it? Ralph Nader advises him first to "appeal internally" to his superiors, moving up the chain of command until he produces results. If he runs into a dead end, and if the consequences of continued wrong practice "will result in further injury, fraud or other corporate or governmental crime against consumers," a worker should go public-by contacting the press, his Congressman or his Senator. Nader cautions dissident employees to resist resigning from the company if at all possible. "If you go," he asks, "who remains...