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...Interior has taken over a complex. It then sweeps north and east, including the reopened al-Rasheed Hotel and the Convention Center where the Iraqi parliament meets, and past a warren of low buildings that houses two Iraqi army brigades called Camp Honor. The area ends at the northeasternmost edge along the Tigris River at the white columns of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the tree-lined streets around the Prime Minister?s residence. Only the innermost cordon of U.S. Embassy officies and sensitive military installations are guarded entirely by U.S. troops...
...Burma Communist Party launched its first major offensive at the end of 1971 by laying siege to the administrative outpost of Kunlong in the Wa States in the northeasternmost corner of Burma. The intensity of the Communist attack came as a surprise to Rangoon, which had hitherto paid scant attention to the existence of the small and weak party. But between 1968 and 1971, a group of Burmese Communists who had been given ideological training in China set up a strong organization among the peasants of the Shan State. The resulting attack on Kunlong ended in a standoff after...
...hopes to do is give China a substitute for the Burma Road, in the form of 100 transport planes. Then supplies landed on India's west coast can be carried across India by rail and flown about 500 miles to China from airfields in Assam, India's northeasternmost province...
...around the world, took off from Khabarovsk, Southeastern Siberia, for Nome (TIME, June 19). He never arrived. For 23 days no word was heard of him. Last week Mattern's backers in Chicago received an electrifying radiogram from Anadir, trading post on the bleak peninsula which forms the northeasternmost tip of Siberia. It read: "Safe . . . Gemmie." Further despatches indicated that Mattern had made a forced landing 50 mi. from there, damaging his plane Century of Progress; had subsisted for days on game shot with a rifle given him by admiring Russian aviators at Khabarovsk...
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