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...highly suspicious of the Nixon Administration on the ground that it is trying to renew the Cold War. Many U.S. officials reciprocate the suspicion because of what they describe as a "trilogy" of events in the past year: 1) The Soviets sent not only missiles but also crewmen to Egypt's aid along the Suez Canal; 2) they gave at least tacit permission for a Soviet-equipped Syrian armored column to invade Jordan during King Hussein's showdown with the Palestinian guerrillas; and 3) they covertly tried to set up a nuclear sub base at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Still...
...during the Laos operation, Communist gunners have knocked out no fewer than 61 helicopters, about 10% of the fleet originally committed to Lam Son 719. More than 160 other birds have been brought down but later hauled back to their bases by other choppers. A total of 31 U.S. crewmen have been killed, 44 wounded, and ten listed as missing...
...days of relative quiet, fighting has began again near Sepone on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. U.S. sources reported heavy North Vietnamese artillery and tank attacks at Lolo, a fire support base nine miles southeast of Sepone. One American helicopter was reported shot down, and several others hit. Helicopter crewmen said that they were forced by heavy ground fire to drop supplies while hovering five or six feet above the base...
...Naval Operations, disclosed last week that he has assigned patrol gunships on a trial basis to trail the ships that trail his ships. The Asheville-class craft being tested have only 3-in. guns, which can scarcely harass the Soviet ships, and they ride so poorly that the U.S. crewmen have to strap themselves to their stations with safety belts. Still, the Navy hopes eventually to equip them with surface missiles that could pose a serious threat to the Soviet trailers...
While the 207,000-ton supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were...