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...Veteran Affairs, to take charge of its defenses. Nonetheless, the insurgents steadily advanced. Using American 105-mm. howitzers captured last month from fleeing government troops, they massively shelled the city, rendering Kompong Cham's airport useless. Government supplies and reinforcements had to be brought in by boat convoy, helicopter or air drop. By midweek, antigovernment gunners had zeroed in so closely on helicopter landing pads that many pilots could not land. The advance was so rapid that two C-130s erroneously dropped 28 tons of government supplies behind the insurgents' lines, thus giving them plenty of new ammunition...
...turn his no tions into a workable social philosophy. He is hassled not only by Darden and his dark forces but by his own comrades, especially a band of war-loving gorillas who are apparently supposed to symbolize the Pentagon. There is some mild fun in a ragtag convoy of bad guys who ride to battle in a couple of old cars and a battered school bus - all that remains of the visual stunts that distinguished earlier Ape efforts...
...troupe were 80 magnificent white stallions whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton, who dispatched a convoy of tanks into Czechoslovakia to escort 200 Lipizzan mares and foals to safety...
...just brought his shell-scarred Lucky Star to the dock in Phnom-Penh last week−the 3,500-ton lead ship in a convoy that had to run a gauntlet of Communist gunfire to reach the encircled Cambodian capital. Normally, such ships−manned by Chinese crews that get large, unspecified war bonuses to do the work−set out every ten days from the South Vietnamese port of Vung Tau with cargoes of machinery, machine parts and fuel. The latest convoy, however, was delayed two weeks while U.S. bombers tried to clear a passage through Communist gunners along...
...direct hits on the vessel's superstructure. Two tankers on Lo's stern caught 14 rockets. When Lo looked back, he saw a smaller cargo vessel, the 1,500-ton Ally, burning and beached on the riverbank. In all, ten of the 18 vessels in the original convoy decided to turn back to An Long...