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...Viet Nam War since the Paris Accords were signed more than two years ago. South Vietnamese pilots flew sortie after sortie, and claimed to have knocked out 46 tanks and dozens of artillery pieces on the city's main streets-accidentally killing Province Commander Luat in the process. Troop-carrying helicopters flew through withering antiaircraft fire and successfully landed ARVN reinforcements east of the city. Each side was estimated to have between 6,000 and 7,000 troops within the embattled city...
...efficiently manage some parts of the $335 million enterprise itself. Thus the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was given the $62 million job of building modern barracks for the Saudi guard. But the Cadillac Gage Co. was given a civilian contract to build armored cars for Faisal's troops. No fewer than eight U.S. companies submitted bids for the troop-training contract. It was won by Vinnell with a bid of $76.9 million, of which the Pentagon as primary contractor, in keeping with standard practice, will keep 2%. Part of the Pentagon's fee will be earned...
There were hints that much more serious consequences might ensue-ranging from the closing of NATO'S vital early-warning installations in Turkey, which monitor troop movements and missile activity in the Soviet Union, to a gradual shift in the country's foreign policy toward a more neutral stance. As Parliamentary Deputy Haluk Ulman put it, "If the U.S. decides that it can live without Turkey, then Turkey must learn to live without the Western world." Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, moreover, warned that the aid cutoff might provoke the proclamation of an independent Turkish-Cypriot state...
...than 10,000 cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew of the American transport Otranto was too weak to abandon ship after colliding with another vessel during an Atlantic storm. It sank with a loss of 431 lives. Aboard the troop ship Leviathan, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt suddenly keeled over. From an overcrowded Chicago hospital ward a deathly feverish 16-year-old who had lied about his age to become a Red Cross ambulance driver was sent home to improve his chances for recovery...
...exactly how Ethiopia should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should be solved by granting the province greater autonomy...