Word: antiaircraft
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Floating Surprise? Naturally, Power feels that the U.S. needs a new strategic bomber. He insists that nuclear bombers can be retained as a backstop deterrent, argues that by firing air-to-ground rockets against antiaircraft installations ahead, among other techniques, more bombers could get through than might be expected. But under present planning, reports Power, within eight to ten years "all B-47s would have long been retired; the remaining B-52s would be worn and obsolete, and the limited number of B-58s would be obsolescent at best," while "for the first time in the history of American strategic...
Phuqui's devastation served another purpose as well. Much of its ammunition was earmarked for trucking into Laps to resupply North Vietnamese antiaircraft guns guarding highways. The Viet Cong use the highways to run arms convoys from North Viet Nam through eastern Laos and thence toward South...
Viet Nam infiltration points. The lack of antiaircraft shells will make the route far more hazardous by opening it further to U.S. air strikes...
Danang, with its airfield, deep-water port facilities and 100,000 population, its U.S. and Vietnamese attack bomb ers, assault helicopters and transports, is a prime target. The three Hawk antiaircraft batteries clustered at Danang since February, with their 36 antiaircraft missiles, add to the target potential of the Danang aviary. From their own strongholds on Monkey Mountain, just west of the base, the Viet Cong are in a good position to clip the claws of those raptors...
Hate Campaign. The Syrians charged that Attassi had obtained from Hakemi eleven shells of a new Soviet antiaircraft gun of the Syrian armed forces and had handed them over to Walter Snowdon, second secretary of the U.S. embassy in Damascus, who was expelled (TIME, Feb. 26). Washington denied the spy charges, but not very hard. Instead, the U.S. concentrated on protesting Syria's brutal treatment of Attassi. Before going to trial, he had been tortured by electricity, beaten, brainwashed and starved. U.S. officials were not allowed to see him in jail, he was not provided with legal counsel...