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Tanker Base. Part of a $75 million, U.S.-financed project near the Thai port of Sattahip, the new airfield features an 11,500-ft. runway, the longest and strongest in Southeast Asia. The facility will be home base for 30 giant KC-135 tankers. These circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American...
...have drifted away to other jobs; the rest have now been quietly advised to start looking elsewhere. At week's end, W.J.T.. President Matt Meyer said that the Trib's fate will be decided within a few days. This week the newspaper strike will become the longest in New York history, and killing the Trib can only make it longer, since all ten unions (nine of which have settled) will have to renegotiate their contracts...
...buried in lumber. Xenophobia, pyromania and sundry aberrations are touched upon, while Genet catalogues the destructive power of Woman. On the night before the woodsman is beaten to death by the villagers who suspect him of her crimes, Moreau leads her victim through rainswept meadows in one of the longest and most ludicrous love marathons ever filmed...
What pleases Stone most is that the Delhi embassy's fame seems to have lingered longest in the Middle East and Pakistan, where it has since won him a dozen commissions. "They want something they can identify with, not just a crate," says Stone. "The problem is to be inspired by their style and do a completely modern building...
...What do a child-guidance counselor, a jazz pianist, a BBC newscaster, a Peruvian living in Paris, a 26-year-old beauty from North Carolina and a 63-year-old real estate millionaire from Manhattan have in common? Answer: All are aspiring authors who have swelled one of the longest and strongest lists of first novels ever published in a single season...