Word: flew
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...Wish I Hadn't." While the Security Council jawed, U.S. bombers once again flew over North Viet Nam. Keeping well south of the strategic "red envelope" that enfolds the heavy industrial targets around Hanoi and Haiphong, the strikes hit many of the same roads, bridges, ferries and supply dumps that were plastered when the bombing originally started a year ago. Farther south, the ground war was markedly intensified in both scale and determination. More than 25,000 U.S., South Korean and South Vietnamese troops scoured the countryside in six massive operations; one of them, the division-sized "Operation White...
...Yale History Professor Staughton Lynd, 36, the most publicized of the Hanoi tourists, the delay was good for one last peace fling. When the BBC invited him to air his views on the war, New Leftist Lynd-to his own surprise -still had his passport, and flew off to London. There he denounced U.S. involvement in Viet Nam on a TV panel show, told a sparse peacenik rally in Trafalgar Square that American policy is "as ruthless to the truth as it is ruthless to human beings. I, for one, shall have nothing to do with that policy." Which, after...
...after the Communists' five weeks' grace, the flak flew thicker over virtually every target. Moreover, reconnaissance showed that Ho Chi Minh's men had hastily implanted ten new SAM sites, bringing to 60 the number of nests across the country able to cradle Ho's Russian rocket launchers. Even the North Vietnamese air force took advantage of the free skies to give its pilots some hasty refresher work in the MIG fighters that Hanoi has largely refrained from using so far. Hanoi also used the hiatus to pump perhaps 6,000 fresh troops down...
...before the U.S. entered World War II, Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm on the North Dakota-Canada border, flew its bombers there from the Burbank assembly line, hitched them to teams of horses. The horses, supposedly not subject to the laws of man, drew the planes across the boundary. Canadians unhitched the animals, let British pilots ferry the aircraft on to England...
Last September, Hussein flew to Teheran for secret talks with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. In December, Feisal paid his own visit to the Shah, where the two settled an old dispute over offshore oil rights in the Persian Gulf. The oil-rich gulf, in fact, is doubtless one key element in all the royal rambling, for with Britain considering withdrawal from its bases at Bahrein and Aden, an informal understanding today could become a formal pact tomorrow if leftists try to push the Nasserite cause in the region...