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...Operation Attleboro, got its start with a minor fire fight. A U.S. company on a routine rice hunt stumbled onto a Viet Cong platoon and traded blows for an hour. But that night the enemy struck back, mortaring two base camps -a tactic sometimes used by the Communists to divert the Allies from more serious business near by. Still not certain if something big was up, U.S. commanders dispatched six battalions of the 1st Infantry Division to the scene by plane and helicopter...
Canadian prosperity, at least in the short run, appears to depend on continued American investment. As a result, most anti-Americanism in Canada has not focused on the investment issue, but on peripheral questions like the installation of American nuclear missiles on Canadian soil, or a plan to divert Canadian water into...
...large, Pat Brown has done an effective, if sometimes halting, job of meeting his constituents' needs. He has set up a bold $1.75 billion water plan that will divert Feather River waters from lush north to parched south. He has established three new state universities and six colleges. He is responsible for naming six of the seven judges on the State Supreme Court, one of the U.S.'s most progressive benches. He created a state fair-employment practices commission, instituted the nation's first effective statewide smog-control program, increased welfare to needy aged people, hiked unemployment...
...four rode to the 27th floor, headed single file up the last three flights, carefully removed a barricade of furniture that Whitman had set at the top of the stairs. While cops on the ground intensified their fire to divert Whitman's attention, Martinez slowly pushed away the dolly propped against the door leading to the walkway around the tower, crawled out onto its south side and began moving stealthily to the east. Crum followed through the door and turned toward the west. Hearing footsteps, Crum fired into the southwest corner to keep Whitman from bursting around the corner...
Israel fired off a note to the Security Council, and U.N. observers rushed to the scene. In Tel Aviv, Mapai leaders happily expected that the renewed border violence would divert the heat from Eshkol on the home front, were optimistic that Harel's campaign would finally fizzle. Not so Harel. He was still accepting all speaking engagements that came his way. Said he: "This is not my privilege but my duty...