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...beginning, according to U.S. intelligence reports, the Communists planned an outright invasion of the border province of Quang Tri. But the aggressive probing of Operations Hastings and Prairie has apparently thrown Hanoi's timing off. In the past month, more and more Marines have been shifted northward to the immediate area of the DMZ; last week, U.S. strength in the far north was beefed up by two additional Marine battalions and two battalions of Army artillery. The commanding generals of both Marine divisions in Viet Nam have moved their headquarters northward as well...
...minutes before ten o'clock, it is dark, it is August, and it is hot. The sounds are of traffic rushing down one of Birmingham, Alabama's major arteries a hundred yards away. The occasional car that squeals around the corner and drives northward flashes past groups of dark figures lounging on rickety wooden chairs transplanted from living rooms to front lawns...
...airman is lifted out of difficult terrain by hoist. Each rescue copter has a 240-ft. cable tipped by a "forest penetrator": a 25-lb. sinker that can plunge through heavy foliage, then, petal-like, open up to form three seats. Rescue squadrons stand on alert for every sortie northward, and some even nest for a period within North Viet Nam, waiting for a mayday call...
...salute boomed out, British Governor General Sir Glyn Jones waved from the doorway of the Malawi Airways Viscount. A moment later he disappeared inside, and the plane soared northward toward Britain. All alone in the middle of a red carpet stood Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, waving his fly whisk after the plane. It was a last fond farewell between the two men who had worked together to prepare Malawi for independence in 1964 and for last week's ceremonies, which established Malawi as a republic and Banda as its first President...
...service open up the 330-mile inside passage from Kelsey Bay on Vancouver Island to Prince Rupert, B.C.'s largest northern port, but the ship's 20-hour run also eliminates 800 miles of driving to get to the panhandle of Alaska. In fact, by continuing northward from Prince Rupert on the three-year-old Alaska Ferry Service, the motorist can escape all but 600 miles of the arduous 2,200-mile drive from the Washington State border to Fairbanks...