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Tanker Base. Part of a $75 million, U.S.-financed project near the Thai port of Sattahip, the new airfield features an 11,500-ft. runway, the longest and strongest in Southeast Asia. The facility will be home base for 30 giant KC-135 tankers. These circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American...
Route to the Interior. The airfield itself will be ready this summer, large enough to hold at one time three squadrons of fighter-bombers, 20 KC-135 jet transports, one squadron of air-defense fighters and 120 C-123 transport planes, not to mention the B-52s which could fly from its extra-thick runways. Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway...
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Soon after the January 17 collision between a nuke-carrying B-52 and its KC-135 tanker over Spain, a desperate Defense Department turned for help to the Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, which conducts bomb-electronics research for the AEC. Sandia scientists promptly requested all available accident data from the task force. With other experts, they pored over interviews with surviving B-52 crew members and witnesses on the ground; they studied Air Force wind-velocity records and the ballistic characteristics and impact points of the three recovered H-bombs. By feeding complex equations into computers, they projected trajectories backward...
Cincinnati 3Baltimore 2 Minnesota 6 New York (A) 3 Boston 10 Wash. 0 St. Louis 7 Chicago (A) 5 Detroit 8 Pittsburgh 7 New York (N) 7 KC 3 Houston 12 Phila. 9 San Fran. 7 Calif. 4 Cleveland 4 Chicago...