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Just north of the provincial capital of Lampang is one of four LORAN-C stations, acrial navigation transmitters, that the US Coast Guard operates in Southeast Asia. By taking fixes on the beams of three of these stations, American aircraft in flight can determine their exact positions...

Author: By John Burgess, DISPATCH NEWS SERVICE | Title: CIA, Electronics Stations Strengthen Influence of U.S. in Northern Thailand | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

MOST biologists here are not very worried about B and G's herbicide program: the questionable chemicals are used in very small quantities and the evidence of direct danger to humans is inconclusive. The current furor over herbicides focuses on the massive acrial sprayings in Vietnam, where huge doeses of herbicides sometimes drift into drinking water supplies...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Pesticides at Harvard | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Against the Quakers the Princeton signal-caller completed 10 of 19 pass attempts for 140 yards, and two touchdowns. Not satisfied with his acrial bom-bardment. MacBean also carried the ball six times for 32 additional yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacBean Is Back of Week; Led Tigers to 42-0 Win | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

While a coach at Gettysburg College, John Yovicsin used a wide-open acrial game. But since moving to Harvard, he has gradually shifted to a ground-gaining game. During his first year with the Crimson, Yovicsin's quarterbacks compiled an average of 85.7 yards per game in the air. Last year the figure had dropped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yovicsin to Rely on Potent Running Attack | 9/29/1962 | See Source »

...these writers gave aid to the enemy by criticizing the accuracy and evaluation of the intelligence information supplied by Willoughby to MacArthur. In answering this criticism, Willoughby claims that he expected to encounter "the full force of Communist China at the end of the trail" but that restrictions on acrial reconnaisance flights prevented him from getting accurate estimates of Chinese forces until the Eighth Army first met the Chinese on November 24th. So our army was shoved into the ring like a blindfolded boxer. But British and Chinese Nationalist Intelligence had both acquired and passed on information on the Chinese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Intelligence | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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