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...Tri, South Vietnam's top field commander, was killed Tuesday in a helicopter crash en route to inspect more than 20,000 Saigon troops on a major offensive in eastern Cambodia...
Last week the forbidding ruins, relics of an earlier and rougher stage in the war, were abruptly jolted from their silence. From jumping-off points 50 miles away, long columns of tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers ground into the rugged western reaches of Quang Tri province, raising towering columns of dust. Overhead, gunships darted around in search of enemy troops. Giant Chinook helicopters flapped into long-abandoned bases, depositing men and massive earth-moving machines. At Lang Vei, a halftrack pulled up loaded with expectant-looking G.I.s. One soldier had a single word painted on his helmet: "Laos...
...Royce, which reported a trading loss of $7.4 million for this year's first half, also is writing off another $108 million in losses it expects to take once the engine goes into production. The company cannot pass the increased costs on to Lockheed because, to win the Tri-Star contract, Rolls-Royce agreed to a price ceiling for the first 600 engines. Thus, on top of development expenses, Rolls-Royce will lose money on each of the first 600 engines manufactured. If the government refused to give more aid, Rolls-Royce could disappear as a major aircraft enginemaker...
...true that UMass, Holy Cross, and Brown have inflated Dartmouth's statistics somewhat, but Ivy tri-champion Princeton fell to the Indians...
...Buddhist '"Lotus Blossom" candidates, who were tacitly backed by Thich Tri Quang's antigovernment An Quang Pagoda faction, narrowly edged out the progovernment "Sun" slate...