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...down Ho Chi Minh's domain the attackers ranged, cutting rail lines and roads, taking out trains, trucks and barges, bombing missile sites and antiaircraft batteries. Even by the Jovian standards of Operation Rolling Thunder, the code name for the air war against North Viet Nam, it was a spectacular performance: the most devastating six days...
Last January no more than a dozen Soviet warships sailed upon what has been for years the NATO domain, of the 50-ship U.S. Sixth Fleet. Now 45 to 55 Soviet ships, including missile-firing destroyers, plus a dozen submarines, patrol the Mediterranean. The Russians supply their ships at sea, sometimes drop into Alexandria, Port Said and the Syrian port of Latakia for repairs under the pretext of good-will visits. They also visit the French-built base at Mers-el-Kebir on the Algerian coast, which they would like to use as a permanent base when the last remnants...
...last week the country's richest and most populous area suddenly erupted in two major battles, including one that turned into the Communists' biggest defeat of the war in the Delta. The battles were remarkable for two reasons. One was that the Delta is still the sole domain of indigenous Viet Cong forces, some 80,000 strong, who seldom choose to do battle in the large numbers and on the scale of their North Vietnamese allies operating farther north. The other was that the Allied forces that inflicted the damage on the Delta Viet Cong were largely South...
...investment into industry to modernize it or, in spite of all the export campaigns, for not really getting out and hard-selling British goods. The job of salesman holds little status in Britain and, for that matter, business itself still tends to be looked down upon as the domain of the hustling parvenu or the disdainful "gentleman amateur...
...City's case against the CNCV petition is based on a narrow interpretation of the right of popular initiative. The purpose of an initiative petition is to enact a law, not express an opinion, McCarthy argues. The CNCV resolution is clearly beyond the legislative domain of the City of Cambridge, and therefore it is not a proper subject for an initiative petition, he reasoned. "If they want to hold a public opinion poll, they should go talk to WBZ," McCarthy said last week...