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Architects Whitney Smith and Wayne Williams are master-planning 80,000 acres to be called California City, in which more than 8,000 families have already invested some $15 million. Outstanding features completed: a municipal airfield, a 27-acre, man-made lake with marina, boats, and an island on which a smaller lake is stocked for fishing, a night-lighted golf course and driving range, a shopping center, two motels, a restaurant, two swimming pools, and a Congregational church. And Los Angeles Architect Welton Becket is building a 260-acre Century City on the old 20th Century-Fox lot near...
...vain, previous Burmese governments have offered amnesties to the rebels. Ne Win went farther: he promised a safe-conduct to rebel leaders for discussions in Rangoon. Red Flag Leader Thakin Soe accepted. He was picked up by a river gunboat, taken to a government airfield and flown to Rangoon, where he promptly demanded 1) a nationwide ceasefire, 2) withdrawal of Burmese troops from vital Red Flag areas, and 3) a meeting of all political factions-legal and illegal-to form a new government. Taken aback by these demands, Ne Win denounced Thakin Soe as "insincere" and gave him seven days...
...forty 27-lb. gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked every small foundry in London on the off-chance that they might nab the gang in the act of melting their haul into easily portable nuggets...
...around the isolated village of Chimán on Panama's south coast recently were startled to hear a voice from an airplane loudspeaker: "Good morning, friends of Chimán. This is a Commando aircraft of the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Mayor, all towns that have an airfield are able to carry their products to market more quickly and in case of emergency are able to receive assistance promptly. We are able to help you build an airfield if you would like one." Commando planes dropped two strips of luminous orange tape and then instructions to Chim...
Moving over the mountaintops and through the passes girdling the plain, the Reds at last surrounded the six-mile-long plateau. From the heights, the Communists laid a mortar barrage on the airfield, Kong Le's last remaining lifeline to Vientiane. With the airstrip inoperable, Kong Le was forced to rely on runners as his primary means of communication; he had no choice but to pull together what was left of his shattered forces and move off the plain...