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...told the President that his intelligence people had recommended a P.O.W. camp at Son Tay as a likely target for search and rescue. Nixon was enthusiastic. On Aug. 11 he gave a go-ahead for planning the operation without actually authorizing the mission. The Pentagon assigned Brigadier General LeRoy Manor, head of air commandos at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and Colonel Simons, an ex-Green Beret then stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., to lead what became known as Joint Contingency Task Group Ivory Coast...
With some 100 carefully chosen Army and Air Force volunteers, most of them Viet Nam veterans, Manor and Simons set up a secret training center at Eglin. "It was sort of by invitation only," says an Army officer. "The invitation didn't indicate when the dance would be over, but it did mention that it would be dangerous." A full-size mock-up of the Son Tay camp was built in the vastness of Eglin's preserve, based on intelligence from travelers and diplomats who had heard about the camp in Hanoi, and aerial reconnaissance. It was put up each...
Brig. Gen. Leroy J. Manor, one of the raiders' commanders, estimated that the camp had been evacuated as long as three weeks ago. He dismissed the possibility of a security leak...
...CRIMSON may be looking past Saturday's game to next Fall's opener against the Pine Manor Salmagundi. "We may be looking past Saturday's game to next Fall's opener against the Pine Manor Salmagundi," equipment manager Scott W. Jacobs said late last night...
Early in the second half of the main event, Pine Manor scored from a melee in front of the Radcliffe goal. The situation looked bleak for the Cliffies until Rouse scored at 13:07 with assists from Morehead and Lightbody...