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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winkle Them Out." The American reinforcements will have the benefit of some U.S. preparations. Twelve U.S. Special Forces camps have already been set up in the Delta. The U.S. Navy patrols its 2,500-mi. labyrinth of rivers and canals with 71 PT-type boats and three hovercraft. Along the coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung...
...survives, the London Symphony could become a permanent summer fixture in Daytona. Says General Secretary Ernest Fleischmann: "It's ridiculous that we had to come to Daytona Beach to do this. It should have happened in England long ago-to teach, play, to benefit the community. This is where we should be eleven months of the year...
...machinists' strike seemed in evitable, the President invoked the 40-year-old Railway Labor Act to postpone the walkout so that a three-man presidential emergency board could study the dispute. Chaired by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, a partisan of organized labor, the board ultimately recommended a wage-benefit increase of 3.6%, a notch above L.B.J.'s 3.2% anti-inflationary wage-price guideline. Johnson was pleased nonetheless, urged both labor and management to accept the board's terms. The five airlines-Northwest, TWA, Eastern, United and National-agreed, but the I.A.M. turned thumbs down, went on strike...
Pandora's Box. An unknown aboriginal people built the washboard-like excavations possibly more than 1,000 years ago, using only the crudest implements, without benefit of metal tools or draft animals. Their motive remains a mystery, although some speculate that the shallow channels lying between the ridges may have carried water to or from grain or root crops grown on top of the long mounds...
...another marathon session ending at 5 a.m., the Common Market had agreed on a financing system for price supports and export subsidies-of which France will collect about 45% -and for modernizing farming, which will benefit Italy the most. These and other agreements virtually complete the creation of what the French call Europe verte (a green Europe), which will formally sprout on July 1, 1968, the date when the last industrial tariffs among the Six are also scheduled to disappear...