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Danang, with its airfield, deep-water port facilities and 100,000 population, its U.S. and Vietnamese attack bomb ers, assault helicopters and transports, is a prime target. The three Hawk antiaircraft batteries clustered at Danang since February, with their 36 antiaircraft missiles, add to the target potential of the Danang aviary. From their own strongholds on Monkey Mountain, just west of the base, the Viet Cong are in a good position to clip the claws of those raptors...
...today's events, Henry Frey will try the long haul in the 400-yard individual medley, while Mahoney has a chance to defeat Cornell's defending champion, Dave Hawk, in the low-board dive. Dick Smith could make the finals in the 500-yard freestyle, and the Crimson team of Fowler, Hayes, Jim Seubold, and Eric Klaussmann will be a threat in the medley relay...
...highlight of the meet today should be the dive, where Harvard's Dan Mahoney will meet last year's Eastern low-board champion Dave Hawk and former prep school champion Tom Cazel...
...Hawk topped Mahoney by three points in last year's dual meet, though Mahoney came back to beat him in the Eastern highboard championships...
Other Moves. Even as he ordered the air strikes against North Viet Nam, President Johnson took other actions aimed at convincing the Communists that the U.S. really means business in Viet Nam. For one thing, he ordered an Okinawa-based battalion of 550 Marines armed with 54 Hawk ground-to-air missiles to Danang to protect scores of aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip on aprons. The Hawk is a killer at up to 45,000 ft. and at a distance of 22 miles, homes in on enemy aircraft by radar. The dispatch of the Hawks was merely an extra precaution...