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...started construction of a radar tracking center near Sisophon, in northwestern Cambodia. Soviet merchantmen ply between Vietnamese coast ports and the Cambodian port of Kompong Som on resupply missions. Submarines of the Soviet Pacific fleet glide in and out of the huge American-built complex at Cam Ranh Bay, even though it is not a full-fledged Soviet naval base...
Meanwhile, Hanoi for the first time allowed three Soviet warships-a cruiser, a frigate and a minesweeper-to use the American-built naval facilities at Cam Ranh Bay. Soviet ships have also made port calls at Danang, and Vietnamese troops are being flown around the country in Soviet aircraft. Concerned about the fragility of the ceasefire, one Hanoi-based Western diplomat glumly predicts: "I rate the chance of a further round of fighting rather high and very soon...
...Soviet counterploys prompted U.S. concern that Moscow might want to establish a permanent port of call at Cam Ranh Bay, the sparkling white-sand harbor northeast of Saigon that served as the main U.S. Navy base in the Viet Nam War. Having rights to Cam Ranh would give the Soviets a dramatic new naval advantage and would pose a potential threat to Chinese and Western shipping lanes, especially Japan's petroleum lifeline through the Strait of Malacca. But with no overt Soviet moves by week's end, Western observers remained hopeful that Hanoi's independent-minded leaders...
...jungle with the concentrated body odor of meat eaters. During the 1960s Congo rebellion, another Pentagon study investigated the possibility of creating "special magic potions" for use by friendly Congolese troops. In Viet Nam, American forces distributed "propaganda soap" layered with anti-Viet Cong messages, and experimented at Cam Ranh Bay with dolphins in underwater surveillance and detection...
China's new leaders are highly displeased to have an ally of Moscow to the south. Peking claims that the Soviet navy has occupied Cam Ranh Bay, that the Soviet army has a camouflaged missile site at Hon Gay, and that the Russians are building a naval base near Haiphong...