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...firm of jaw, Colonel Gerald V. Kehrli had been a model Air Force officer for 28 years. In May 1970, he took command of a less-than-spirited air transport squadron at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase, and before long the unit was back at a peak of morale. "It was guys like Colonel Kehrli who gave you that go-go spirit," one of his former officers said last week. "He was the kind of man you really wanted to work...
...White House, focusing on American rather than Asian casualties, replies that monthly U.S. losses in the war are one-fifth of what they were when Nixon took office, that the U.S. troop level is down by nearly 215,000 men from its early 1969 peak of 543,000, and that the level should be around 50,000 by the end of next year. U.S. military commanders plan to send ARVN troops back into Laos and Cambodia as often as necessary to keep South Viet Nam secure. The South Vietnamese might not be so enthusiastic about the idea, however, if they...
...match at number one between Palmer Page and Peter Briggs was marred by continuous arguments over let calls. Tempers reached their peak when, at 4-4 of a five-point set of the second game, Page in returning a shot hit Briggs square in the mouth with his racquet...
Traffic down the trail always increases after the monsoon season ends in September or October. It reaches a peak from February to April, the last months when supplies can leave the north and still reach their destination before rains again make the roads impassable in May. This year the trail's cargo has become more vital than ever to the Communists. Since last March, they have been denied the use of the Cambodian port of Kompong Som, where some 75% of the war material for all of South Viet Nam used to be shipped by sea. Thus, except...
Coach Jack Barnaby had two objectives for the squash team at the beginning of the season. Having lost five seniors from last year's national championship team, Barnaby's first goal was to develop slowly the inexperienced talent on the young Crimson squad. The second objective was to peak for a Feb. 20 match with Penn, clearly a far better team on paper than any other squad in the nation...