Word: bases
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...dumps, traffic and gun emplacements along the Trail, v. only 5,692 over North Viet Nam. Even so, roughly 80% of the trucks get through, and the U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh were oiling their weapons in preparation for the worst. Other Marines at "The Rock Pile," the fallback base 16 miles northeast of Khe Sanh, hurried to complete an airstrip so that supplies and reinforcements can be flown in, and giant B-52s daily dumped tons of bombs on infiltration routes from Laos...
Nowadays, her base of operations is the Munich Opera, where she will shortly begin rehearsals for the world premiere of Carl Orff's Prometheus. U.S. audiences, who know her so far only by reputation and a few recordings, will get to see and hear her for themselves, at the Chicago Lyric Opera this year and at the Metropolitan...
Died. Major General Charles M. Eisenhart, 53, vice commander of the 15th Air Force and much-decorated combat veteran; of injuries when his KC-135 jet tanker crashed while attempting a takeoff in heavy fog, killing twelve of 13 aboard; at Minot Air Force Base, Minot...
During the 40 minute bus ride from Cambridge City Hall to the Army Base, both students handed out Boston Draft Resistance Group leaflets and encouraged fellow draftees to resist induction. The mimeographed leaflets said, in summary, "LET'S NOT GO IN LIKE SHEEP." "The leaflet scared a lot of people away from us," said Shetterly...
Both Smith and Shetterly objected last night to the orientation procedure at the Army Base. "There was a terrific amount of lying right at the beginning," said Shetterly. "They told us that once we were on the Base we didn't have any free speech, and that if we asked any questions about Vietnam or government policy they would hit us with immediate induction...