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...either of them emerged, the motorcyclist roared in pursuit, with a cameraman clinging to the back seat. NBC buttressed its eight-man Paris bureau with 22 temporary employees, including five motorcyclists; CBS and ABC added 17 and 14 Paris staffers respectively, and ABC installed radio-telephone systems in an armada of cars and cycles. Skirmishes between reporters and gendarmes multiplied; Keystone Cop car chases through Paris streets and country roads proliferated...
...light has dimmed considerably. The company lost money during two quarters of its 1972 fiscal year, and will close the books later this month with what Ash now calls only a "small profit." The trouble stems in large part from the Pascagoula yard, which has produced a small armada of labor problems, construction delays, cost overruns-but so far very few ships...
...hope that the U.S. mining of North Viet Nam's harbors and the resumption of large-scale bombing of its military and logistics targets might prove as effective as President Nixon had promised. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who as Chief of Naval Operations is ultimately responsible for the massive armada (six carriers, five cruisers, 40 destroyers) that is enforcing Nixon's quasi-quarantine, declared that the flow of supplies into North Viet Nam would be "a trickle from...
...longer had the decisive say in how or where the South Vietnamese fought; the decisions were being made by President Thieu and the South Vietnamese general staff. The U.S. could supply airpower (with more than 1,000 planes in the region) and dominate the Gulf of Tonkin with an armada that will soon number six carriers, five cruisers and 40 destroyers and 41,000 men. Washington could replace the abandoned South Vietnamese equipment, as it was doing last week. And President Nixon could punish Hanoi for the invasion by increased bombing, or even a blockade of Haiphong or a Dieppe...
...response the President played his last card?but it was a powerful one. Early last week, for the first time in four years, American bombs fell in the area of the North Vietnamese capital and the key port of Haiphong. The Administration assembled the strongest air and sea armada in Indochina since the war last peaked in 1968. More than 150 fresh planes were rushed to the theater from bases as far away as North Carolina; the B-52 fleet has been nearly doubled since the North Vietnamese offensive began. When Midway and Saratoga join the four aircraft carriers...