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...their way to the Naxalites, and eventually we will fight not only the army but also the bourgeoisie and the feudal elements." Contemptuous of democratic processes, the Naxalite said scornfully: "Now the Awami League cadres are seeing the truth of the saying that political power grows out of the barrel...
CONCEALMENT OF AIR STRIKES. The documents reveal that, in Operation Barrel Roll, the CIA was regularly using U.S. civilian pilots flying U.S. planes to make air strikes along infiltration routes in Laos early in 1964. In December, this campaign was stepped up to semiweekly attacks by regular U.S. Air Force and Navy flyers, but the National Security Council ordered: "There would be no public operations statements about armed reconnaissance [a euphemism for operations in which pilots are allowed to attack any target they find rather than limited to assigned targets] in Laos unless a plane were lost. In such...
...nation's ten most dangerous, and last week the airport manager said that the crash would not have occurred if the airport had been equipped with an instrument-landing system. In California, some witnesses said that the Phantom, from the El Toro Marine Air Station, had been making barrel rolls-stunt flying-before it collided with the airliner, which was on its correct path from Los Angeles International Airport. It remains for the sole survivor, a Marine radar officer who bailed out, to explain what a military plane was doing making barrel rolls near one of the world...
...boat, the enormous thing finally came boiling out of the water. Then it tore off for a weed bed and snapped the 20-lb. test line like a kite string. That evening under the oaks I told of my adventure with a "lunker as big as a beer barrel in this special hole in the backwaters." "Where's the hole?" one fisherman asked. "Where?" I just smiled...
...Easy Job. The trouble is that much of this treasure is not recoverable with today's technology at today's prices. The Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, for example, hold billions of barrels of oil imprisoned in shale. Estimates of the price that would have to be charged for oil crushed and burned out of that rock run as high as $5 a barrel v. $3.25 for crude oil pumped out of U.S. wells, and roughly $2 for Middle Eastern crude. In addition, the shale-extraction process piles up mountains of ash that would create environmental hazards...