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Beginning soon, a wedding photographer carrying a $189 movie camera loaded with super 8-mm. film will be able to take sound motion pictures of the bride's arrival at church and have the movie ready to show at the reception. Films of football games will be developed quickly enough for a coach to deliver a motion-picture critique at half time. Amateur cinematographers may even be able to drop off film at a drugstore, take a fast coffee break, and then pick up the finished footage...
...using U.S. bases there during the crisis, the American transports refueled at Lajes Field in the Portuguese Azores, then flew on to Israel. The Defense Department stationed what it called a "limited" number of Air Force logistics experts in Tel Aviv to help unload antiaircraft and antitank missiles, 105-mm. shells, bombs and radar jammers...
...accounted for most of Israel's nearly 300 tank losses. More conventional but nonetheless effective has been Egypt's use of the Russian T-62 main battle tank. This is the first time that the 36.5-ton tank has operated in combat. It carries a 115-mm...
...about 65,000), approximately 50 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh. Lon Nol vowed that he would not let Kompong Cham fall and dispatched Major General Sar Hor, the highly regarded Minister of Veteran Affairs, to take charge of its defenses. Nonetheless, the insurgents steadily advanced. Using American 105-mm. howitzers captured last month from fleeing government troops, they massively shelled the city, rendering Kompong Cham's airport useless. Government supplies and reinforcements had to be brought in by boat convoy, helicopter or air drop. By midweek, antigovernment gunners had zeroed in so closely on helicopter landing pads that many...
...shots during a 20-mm.-cannon strafing run on what he described as "trees and trails running into trees." As reporters gathered round the two pilots, a ground technician broke in to note that Ratley had expended all but 20 of the 1,500 rounds of ammunition he had carried. Did Ratley see any people in his target area? "No, sir, not directly," he replied...