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Candy from the Sky. From Flagstaff, Ariz., eastward to Fruitland, N. Mex., and from the pinon groves of Utah southward to the stands of saguaro cactus near the Mexican border, the six-state area last week dug out of disaster. The roar of plow and plane engines resounded as Southwesterners raced to clear the roads and rescue the stranded before fresh blizzards came sweeping down, as U.S. weathermen had predicted. The known dead totaled 15, most of them on the Navajo Reservation, which covers an area nearly as large as Ireland. Arizona state officials feared that more may have frozen...
Flares Like Fireworks. The North Vietnamese obviously saw Dak To as not much of an obstacle to their plan to sweep down through the valley to overrun the town of Kontum, then turn eastward for a damaging drive into the Highlands' heart (see map). Four regiments of North Vietnamese, some 10,000 men strong, began positioning themselves in the hills around...
...173rd Airborne Brigade have been guarding the area, which includes the major U.S. base of Pleiku. This is the time of year when the rainy season comes to an end around Dak To-and the Communists dry off and come out fighting. Their plan had been to drive eastward from the border to seize the town of Dak To, then try to sweep southeastward for a strike against Kontum, the provincial capital. They never made it to their first objective. The U.S. forces caught them while they were still moving some 5,000 men into position in the hills above...
...high land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate Arroyo Colorado became a conduit delivering the full fury of the flood. Beulah had closed the highways north; southward seethed the Rio Grande; eastward lay the Gulf, and in from the west swept the flood. Harlingen was trapped...
...eastward effort, Berlin this year will still be doing 90% of its business with the West; it will still be meeting its high transportation costs and overhead with some $2 billion in subsidies from the federal government in Bonn. But Berlin's bridge to the East is less important for the money flowing back over it than as a symbol of the city's effort to re-establish itself as Western Europe's major economic crossroads on the route to Moscow and Eastern Europe...