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Sometimes, the night hunters score a big kill. During Operation Junction City last March, they demolished a convoy of oxcarts carrying weapons and supplies and killed 50 Viet Cong. But the night run is more often a modest operation that catches smaller groups of Viet Cong at meetings or trudging along trails. Through such harassment, the Starlight snipers hope to cut V.C. troop and supply movements at night, and deny the Communists what has been virtually a nighttime sanctuary...
Every morning for three days, the string of cars crammed with grim-faced men streamed through Detroit's traffic to pull up in front of a different corporate doorway. Each time, a solemn platoon spilled from the convoy, headed by a familiar red-haired figure. A holdup? That was the way some people looked at it. For the red-haired leader was United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, and he was paying his now familiar triennial call on the nation's Big Three automakers to open negotiations for new contracts...
...cans for food, which quickly became scarce -and, thanks to profiteering, impossibly expensive. King Hussein's government set up two refugee camps, and other Arab nations sent emergency relief shipments of food, clothing and money. With its usual spirit of Arab brotherhood, fanatic Syria detained a Lebanese government convoy of 70 trucks for twelve hours before allowing it to proceed to Amman...
...Colombia some 300 Castroite guerrillas in two main bands roam the countryside. In recent weeks they hijacked a train, killed 15 army troopers in an ambush in mountainous Huila province and shot to death six more in an attack on an army convoy near Chaparral, 115 miles southwest of Bogota...
Every time a U.S. plane strafes a truck convoy or bombs out a bridge, the cost of Hanoi's involvement in South Viet Nam goes up another notch. Still, the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint by sparing a long list of choice and vital targets. The roster of restricted areas includes the docks of Haiphong harbor, the MIG jet fighter bases that ring Hanoi and the 25-mile zone bordering Red China, which is increasingly used as a sanctuary for truck convoys bringing supplies from China. Last week the U.S. decided to raise the North's costs considerably...