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...most intense air and naval strikes in years hit North Vietnamese targets and for the first time mines were sowed off seven ports. As Nixon draws his hard line and dares the other nuclear powers to cross it, the Vietnamese people must endure the effect of an increased aerial and naval bombardment which has already made much of their country uninhabitable. People around the world continue to hold their breath in anticipation of the Russian and Chinese responses to Nixon's provocation: they know their lives are subject to the whims of an international gambler and his desperate advisors...
Holed Up. The North Vietnamese, meanwhile, had penetrated the north side of An Loc, where most of the civilian population lived, and holed up there against daily aerial bombardment that marked the town's location with a continuous pillar of smoke. The defenders, lacking supplies, could do little to drive them out. At one point a besieged ARVN fire base was down to twelve 105-mm. howitzer rounds. Vietnamese air force helicopter pilots, fearing antiaircraft fire, declined to go in with more. Finally, U.S. Chinooks dropped the needed ammunition and food...
That day the column moved about three miles. From atop an armored personnel carrier, the landscape looked like the Oklahoma Panhandle-thigh-high dry yellow banana grass, and clumps of scraggly trees on either side of the road. It was an ideal terrain for U.S. aerial domination-or so it seemed...
...business," says Hoffman. "We have only made a feeble start." Actually, the U.N.D.P. has made a significant contribution to the quality of life in many countries. One of its first achievements was to rid North Africa and Asia of their historic plagues of locusts by means of cross-border aerial patrols and insecticide raids. Since 1966 the program's various studies-such as surveys that pinpoint copper lodes in Argentina, Panama and Turkey, iron ore in Chile and Gabon, and uranium in Somalia -have helped stimulate $5 billion in follow-up private investment. More than a third...
...battle with the Colts, Griese was expected to trade largely on the running attack of his battering backs, Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick. It would be futile, so the smart money figured, to pass against a zone defense that was reputedly an impenetrable wall. Although Griese used his aerial attack with restraint, the bombs that he threw picked the zone apart in short order...