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...negotiate it blindfolded. There is a reason for that: headlights must be dimmed or even doused for much of the trip because of marauding aircraft. At the end of his run, a driver unloads his cargo at a transfer point and heads back for more. Each section, called a binh tram (logistical support) system, is under a separate command. "The man who runs a binh tram system is Mr. Greyhound," says a U.S. Air Force officer. "He says 'Send them down' or 'Hold them.' " Shipping time for any one load: about two months...
...Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the PRG delegation to the Paris peace talks, claimed yesterday that there are ten battalions of American infantry, artillery, and armor fighting inside Laos...
...demonstrations were apparently a response to the pleas of Nguyen Thi Binh, Chief delegate at Paris for the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, for all opposed to the war to "take actions now that could check the plan for even greater escalation...
Ngueyen Thi Binh, chief negotiator for the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, sent a telegram to the conference today charging that a massive invasion of Laos by U.S., South Vietnamese, and Thai ground troops was in progress and urging the group to mobilize the antiwar movement in protest...
...company has thinned out its staff, and put 1,000 vehicles in storage at Long Binh. Now P.A. & E. is making substantial earnings by cleaning, spraying and packing up equipment that leaves Viet Nam. Company officials expect to gross $66 million in 1971. Says Vice President Thomas Spicknall: "We will stay here as long as we can make a profit-and we think that's going to be a long time." THAILAND stands to lose a major source of new money. The country profited from the war to the tune of $600 million in foreign exchange over the past...