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...military planners call it "the red envelope." Shaped like a triangular flap, the 10,000-sq.-mi. zone encompasses the industrial heartland of North Viet Nam (see map). Yet, as though sealed off by an invisible cordon, its cluster of strategic installations around Hanoi and Haiphong has hardly been grazed by the war, for the U.S. has proscribed bombing raids on the triangle-save for some Soviet SAM missile sites and a few minor targets-ever since its day-in, day-out raids against the North began last February...
...photo-reconnaissance planes dive into the smoke to film the raid's damage for analysis back home, using strobelike parachute flares at night. Backing the raids also are the planes and helicopters of the Air Rescue Service, ready to pluck a downed airman out of the enemy heartland...
...imported scholarly monks and artisans from Italy, Spain, Ireland and England to convert Aachen into St. Augustine's Civitas Dei, the divine city, in the barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...
...Thomas Francis Jr., the head of Michigan's epidemiology department, the team chose Tecumseh, Mich. (pop. 9,500), as typical of the U.S. heartland. Settled in 1824, the town has several industries, a busy main street and a fringe of farms. The researchers arrived in 1959, persuaded 8,600 residents, nine-tenths of the community, to give details of their past family and medical history and to visit a clinic where doctors took blood and urine samples, electrocardiograms, chest X rays, along with complete physical examinations. Then the doctors plotted the frequency of coronary, hypertensive, rheumatic and congenital heart...
...crowds of citizens trucked out from the city or little girls with floral bouquets. After all, Ayub Khan's new chumminess with China was not calculated to please, and Soviet leaders still remember that the U.S. U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over the Russian heartland had taken off from Pakistan's Peshawar base. But Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was on hand as Ayub Khan, jauntily wearing a black caracul cap, came down the ramp accompanied by his daughter, Begum Aurangzeb, and his Foreign Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto...