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...flight plan called for the 700-m.p.h., twin-jet bomber to swing over Germany's beautiful Mosel Valley to Hahn airbase, then bank north to Bremerhaven before returning with zigzags and altitude changes to Hahn and home. The flight plan should have brought the plane and its three-man crew no closer to the border than 70 miles. But somewhere between Hahn and Bremerhaven somebody slipped. According to one U.S. Air Force official last week: "They were about 120 miles off course-a tremendous error...
Instead, a three-man "advance team" will come to Boston late this week to prepare for the drive; and a five-man recruiting team will work at Harvard starting Monday. They will administer tests, attend classes, and set up an information booth at Phillips Brooks House...
...weeks, bands of Castroite guerrillas have been roaming the Dominican hills, waging a hit-and-run war against the three-man junta that rules the Caribbean island nation. The guerrillas call themselves the 14th of June Movement (in imitation of Castro's 26th of July group), and estimates of their strength run to 250 men. While they pose no immediate threat to the government, their nuisance bombs and countryside ambushes make everybody nervous...
McMurdo supports three other main year-round bases, one of which, in the storm-lashed Ellsworth Mountains, is 1,525 air miles distant, as well as two dozen smaller, seasonal outposts such as Beardmore Station, near one of the world's biggest glaciers, where 70,702 tons of equipment had to be airlifted recently to supply a three-man Navy meteorological team for a 30-day stay...
...dictator's tame press had repeatedly condemned them in advance. But Chief Justice Sir Arku Korsah, who headed the three-man court, chose to ignore the hint. At the end of a 51-day trial, he convicted two of the accused, who will be hanged, but exonerated the three top officials who were charged with masterminding the conspiracy. Among the three: former Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, 51, a leftwing, London-educated lawyer who had once been Nkrumah's closest crony. The prosecution cited as "evidence" the fact that Adamafio had refused to sit beside the President...