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...land and sea in and above the so-called Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams. The "Inchon Thing," as Pentagon planners call it-referring to Douglas MacArthur's end run into enemy territory during the Korean War -would carry the ground war to North Vietnamese soil for the first time. The purpose would be to seal off the DMZ as an operational base for North Vietnamese regular forces above the 17th Parallel and to crimp the southward flow of Communist troops. The major drawback of any such offensive is that it would still leave unplugged the Communists...
...Northern soldiers set one foot in side Biafran soil, not a single inch of Nigerian territory will be safe from our attack." That was the vow of Biafra Secessionist Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu just before Nigeria's federal troops, led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State...
...Northern administrative capital of Kaduna. In between times, it dropped thousands of leaflets on federal territory, warning of "the terrible consequences of continued collaboration" with Gowon. "Now that we are on the offensive," Ojukwu announced over Radio Biafra, "we shall not relent until every single enemy soldier on Biafran soil is destroyed, more territories of Nigeria liberated, and the enemy vanquished...
...California, packing machines out in the fields seal freshly picked lettuce heads in plastic, drop them into cardboard boxes, then dis gorge the boxes ready for market. On farms in the Southwest, machines work the fields with surgical precision, injecting minuscule broccoli seeds one by one into the soil at measured intervals...
...says Walker, "tracks in these objects are giving us very accurate information about happenings 4.6 billion years ago, including possibilities of how chemical elements and the planets were formed." To enlarge these studies, balloons are now being lofted to capture cosmic-ray tracks. And when astronauts return with lunar soil one of these days, Walker & Co. will be on hand to help date the moon...