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...Harvard's sailing team can continue its winning ways, it will travel to Seattle, Washington for the North American Collegiate Championships in June...
...Indeed, Cambodian troops have been involved in small skirmishes with Communist forces. For all that, Sihanouk is not likely to permit sizable allied units to cross the border and go after Communist sanctuaries or bomb inside Cambodia. Militarily or diplomatically, he can ill afford such a turnabout against the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, with whom he continues to maintain friendly relations as part of his balancing...
Gondola Cars. The Ho Chi Minh Trail complex through eastern Laos, an area firmly in North Vietnamese and Communist Pathet Lao control, remains the other major supply route. Intelligence estimates that 7,000 to 10,000 North Vietnamese troops monthly filter south. Truck sightings have risen fivefold since the U.S. bombing halt over North Viet Nam: up to 1,000 vehicles are spotted daily, moving north and south. Recently an allied patrol even uncovered a railway track in Laos reaching to the northwestern edge of South Viet Nam. Gondola cars on the line were pulled by men or by trucks...
Eventually, the Paris negotiations must include Cambodia and Laos on their agenda. A settlement strictly confined to South Viet Nam would not necessarily ensure complete North Vietnamese withdrawal to the North: conceivably Hanoi's forces could simply pull back into their old sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos, there to wait for another chance to invade after U.S. troops had withdrawn. That would be anathema to Sihanouk and Souvanna Phouma, as well as to the U.S. In effect, it would mean no settlement...
...well he might. For 336 families who can afford the price of admission, the U.N. Plaza's twin towers offer the best views in Manhattan. From behind its huge windows (when the wind blows the smog away), residents of "the Compound," as they affectionately call it, can see north to Westchester County, south to New York Harbor and the open ocean beyond, east to Kennedy Airport, and west to the New Jersey Palisades. Prices range from $75,000 for a one-bedroom apartment up to $275,000 for a nine-room duplex-plus maintenance charges of as much...