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...Early in the week four South Arabian Cabinet ministers ar rived in London to discuss ways for South Arabia to avert almost certain subversion and take-over by Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple of artillery battalions, and eight Hawker Hunter jets...
...major infusion of fresh American military power if it is ever required. The funnel for that infusion of men and equipment will be a new deep-water port and mammoth airfield at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam. With its pair of 11,500-ft. runways, fuel pipeline to the railheads at Don Muang, giant ammunition storage piers, the $75 million Sattahip complex is the largest military construction job in all of Asia, phasing into operation over the next two years...
Route to the Interior. The airfield itself will be ready this summer, large enough to hold at one time three squadrons of fighter-bombers, 20 KC-135 jet transports, one squadron of air-defense fighters and 120 C-123 transport planes, not to mention the B-52s which could fly from its extra-thick runways. Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway...
Bombing Flour Sacks. The craft, so small that it tucks into a garage, so light that it can be lifted to the airfield atop a Thunderbird, was developed by Igor Bensen, 49, a Russian-born engineer. In the 1950s he set up Bensen Aircraft in Raleigh, N.C., to make and market sets of parts, which cost anywhere from $700 without engine to $2,600 for a complete kit that bolts together like an Erector set. To help push his product, Bensen founded the Popular Rotorcraft Association three years ago. Membership has already grown to 4,000 in all 50 states...
...caravans, moving under the cover of darkness, plod silently across the Saudi border into Yemen. On top of a previous $400 million arms deal with Britain and the U.S., Saudi King Feisal announced fortnight ago that he is buying twelve British-built Hawker Siddeley jets, and plans a military airfield near Qizan, within ten miles of the Yemen border...