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Outsiders claiming firsthand information from the Special Forces officers involved in the mission insist that earlier plans called for at least 600 men and 30 helicopters in the assault force. Some of these critics contend that the plan was scaled down by President Carter and his National Security Council in the belief that a smaller strike would prove less bloody, less provocative to Iran's Arab neighbors and more politically acceptable at home...
OPEC, for its own reasons, also wanted to remove the major companies from the oil game. Dealing on a firsthand basis with Western governments increases the producers' profits and gives them some political leverage over their customers. In the early 1970s the seven leading companies controlled some 80% of world oil trade, but they now have their hands on only about 40%. Says one U.S. energy official: "The shared objective of OPEC is clearto eliminate the middlemen...
...Watergate Sleuth Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, have soared since it was released by Simon & Schuster in December. Now the court is about to be shaken further by a book that may draw even more attention, if only because it was written by someone who really did have firsthand knowledge of the institution's personalities and practices: Justice William O. Douglas...
Last week firsthand testimony about Viet Nam's determination to extend its authority over every corner of Cambodia emerged from three of the 120 Vietnamese army deserters who have turned up among the thousands of civilian refugees still streaming across the border into neighboring Thailand. Interviewed by TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark at a Thai military prison near the border town of Aranyaprathet, the deserters provided details about the continued warfare between Hanoi's army and the remnants of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces, and about what is fast becoming the complete "Vietnamization...
...deserters' firsthand accounts confirmed reports by American intelligence. The White House protested that Hanoi has been diverting international relief supplies intended for Cambodia's hungry civilians to its own occupying troops. However, Washington's appeal "not to feed the flames of war, but to use your aircraft and airfields to feed the people" went unheeded. When two U.S. Air Force cargo planes tried to fly into Phnom-Penh last week with cranes to be used for un loading relief supplies, Hanoi ordered the airport closed to them...