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During the eight hours he held command of the plane, Trapnell demanded that he be allowed to talk to President Nixon, TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast, and his lawyer in Miami; that he be given the precise sum of $306,800, the amount he lost in a lawsuit when the Federal Government took away a marina he owned; that he be flown to Dallas to see a psychiatrist; and that Angela Davis and a Dallas County prisoner named George Padilla, a friend, be released. Padilla told his Dallas jailers, "I'm not going anywhere with him. He's nuts...
...much trouble could the Communists cause in South Viet Nam? The U.S. command believes that any offensive will fail, partly because the Viet Cong structure is currently so weak that the North Vietnamese army will be fighting virtually alone. American military experts also concede, though, that the NVA could wreak some "spectaculars," including the seizure of some towns. Even Defense Secretary Laird, who claims 100% confidence in Vietnamization, predicts only that Saigon's troops will win 75% of its battles...
...larger than the combined research fleets of all other maritime powers. In nearly every major body of water, their sea scientists are plumbing the depths for data on currents, water temperature and the sea bed that are vital to fishermen and submariners alike. Although responsible to different chains of command, the commercial and armed navies often work in tandem. A visit to a neutral port by a Russian freighter, for instance, may be followed by a request for docking privileges by a trawler fleet-then by the flag-showing appearance of a rakish, gray-hulled missile cruiser...
...bombing attacks, the government of Prime Minister Brian Faulkner has stepped up the internment campaign. So far this year, 250 suspects have been rounded up, as many as had been detained in the previous three months. Among the new prisoners are three key officers of the Belfast I.R.A. command. There are now so many suspects in detention that Britain recently opened up a fourth camp near the Irish Republic border, and British officers are confident that they are gradually winning the war against the gunmen. "The rate of attrition is steadily increasing," says Faulkner. "The I.R.A. is being crippled...
Mauldin continued to lampoon the brass. The top command thought, correctly as it happened, that Willie and Joe were morale boosters, and even Patton could not touch them. Far from being incitements to mutiny, they were escape valves for the frustrations of the ordinary soldier. Mauldin's humor was often biting, but it was never mean...