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...plane, as designed, measures 107 feet from wingtip to wingtip and has a small, one-man fuselage. The wing frames are built from balsa wood covered with saran wrap, while the leading edges are constructed of "foamulum," a newly invented light-weight aluminum compound resembling styrofoam in appearance. In all, without a pilot, the plane weighs 119 pounds...
Their target was a scant 20 nautical miles from the center of Hanoi: Son Tay, an American prisoner-of-war compound. As the tiny fleet scuttled into North Viet Nam, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger followed its progress at the Pentagon. The radio monitors in Washington were only two minutes behind the actual events. When the choppers passed their first checkpoint, they were seven minutes ahead of schedule. Kissinger made a quiet joke to a high-ranking officer about the plan's being off. Just wait, Kissinger was told. By the time the squadron passed the last checkpoint...
...whether or not a camp is occupied. If, as Laird suggested, intelligence cannot function any better than it did at Son Tay, disturbing questions arise about the thousands of targets bombed by the U.S., North and South, throughout the war. The raiders found waist-deep grass around the compound; from the evidence, General Manor concluded that Son Tay had been abandoned for several weeks...
...Army in Viet Nam long used a defoliant known as "Agent Orange" without qualms as a crop-killing spray. Purpose: to deny food to enemy forces. Last year a secret study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute raised grave doubts about a prime ingredient in Orange, the chemical compound 2,4,5-T. When the substance was fed in small doses to laboratory rats and mice, 80% of their offspring were stillborn, and 39% of the survivors were deformed...
...Holleben in Rio last June, have been lounging about Ben Alkoun, a government-owned compound set in flowering gardens in the hills outside Algiers. The Black Panthers formally opened an office in Algiers in September, and there, last week, Panther-in-Residence Eldridge Cleaver welcomed the latest arrivals from the U.S. ?Dohrn and Drug Guru Timothy Leary, who was on the lam from a California prison farm where he had been serving time on a narcotics charge. Leary told reporters he would return to the U.S. "after the revolution...