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...trip last week of LIFE Photographer John Dominis, the Associated Press's John Griffin, and Magnum Photographer Marc Riboud. Armed with a letter from rebel headquarters giving them passage to the front, the trio set out in a wayward bus named Picnic. Stumbling across a battle convoy, they produced the letter-only to learn that they were among government troops...
...inside the building, broke out machine guns and rifles, and began firing for their lives. The battle raged bitterly for nine hours before the police fortress had been battered and set afire by army tank cannons; then the surviving cops surrendered and were trucked off to prison under army convoy...
...south, where armed bands massacred the Spanish lighthouse keeper and his family of six at Cape Bojador and attacked a Spanish army convoy at Al Auin near the western coast of the Spanish Sahara, even tougher tribesmen were reported taking up arms against Madrid's rule. They were the towering, long-haired R'Guibat tribesmen known as the "blue men" because their robes are colored with an indigo dye that rubs off onto their skin. Rich and, until recently, gunrunning, slave-trafficking nomads who hold a virtual monopoly on camel raising in the western Sahara, they hold colonial...
...have become so vital that many bombers will carry nothing but electronic equipment. Sylvania Electric Products Inc., for instance, is developing a special counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...
...Amman, the Jordan capital, a government spokesman said the next convoy would pass through Mandelbaum Gate into Jordan territory tomorrow and would be searched by Jordan military authorities...