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...Thung tribesmen were moved into a region west of the town of Sepone, a key transshipments point on the Ho Chi Minh trail. South Vietnamese engineers are reportedly attempting to rebuild an airstrip in Sepone for use as a base of operations for deeper penetrations along the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...twin-engined Caribou swoops down from a brilliant blue sky and lands squealing on a pocket airstrip scooped out of volcanic rock or sunbaked sand. Hardly has it braked to a stop when a tall, bearded figure hops out, one hand holding his bright ima-ma, or turban, against the airstream, the other fingering the silver kunjar, or dagger, at his waist. Brown-eyed, gentle Qabus bin Said, 30, absolute monarch of Oman, has arrived on another tour of his sultanate (see color pages). Through such visits the Sultan hopes to strengthen the loyalty of local sheiks and villagers...
...other developments, South Vietnamese forces drove 25 miles inside southern Laos yesterday and seized Sepone, reported to be a major communist supply center, South Vietnamese engineers are rebuilding the town's abandoned airstrip, which will allow them to fly reinforcements and supplies into southern Laos...
...small U.S. Army Beechcraft U-8 bobbed in and out of broken clouds one day last month, the four men aboard caught sight of the railroad tracks and the grassy airstrip that were supposed to mark their destination: the town of Kars in eastern Turkey, 20 miles from the Soviet border. They put down, but as they taxied toward the terminal, the men spotted what looked startlingly like a red star on a nearby helicopter. "It must be a Turkish red crescent," muttered Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer, 57, head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey...
...academic standing was. His roommate. Bill Perdue, "was boosted through a transom, found a key and located the records," Jackson reports. (It was a bad trip: Nixon discovered that he was no longer one of the top three students in his class.) In the Navy, at the Green Island airstrip in the Solomons, Nixon set himself to learning poker so that he could get into the almost nightly high-stakes games. Once he mastered the game, "I never saw him lose," one Navy buddy says. "He might win $40 or $50 every night." Another remembers: "He was the finest poker...