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...provide air cover (if sought) for the armies of a dozen friendly nations, to support and guard the southern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to land marines anywhere that they are needed, and even to reinforce the U.S. Air Force (if called upon) in a strategic bombing northward over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot to local war without setting off a big global bang. "We can exert flexible force tailored to fit any situation," says Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, 57, the weathered combat...
...Northward the steep world rises to Scythia And south of Libya descends, where black Styx and the lowest of the dead look...
...court's new decree, answering an Illinois petition backed by seven other Mississippi Valley states and actively opposed only by Wisconsin among the Great Lakers: a temporary (through Jan. 31) increase to 8,500 cu. ft. a second. The effects were magical. Within hours, twelve oil barges started northward from New Orleans, and by week's end, as Army engineers opened the Chicago and inland locks in easy stages, the jam-up at Alton lock was well on its way to being eased...
...which Saul and Jonathan had used to fall upon the Philistines centuries earlier. The Bible told just where to find it: "And between the passages . . . there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash. and the other southward over against Gibeah." A few years ago Israeli Businessman Xiel Federmann began to brood over the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ("and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace"), guessed such conflagrations might...
Last week, while India looked northward unhappily, Chinese and Nepalese negotiators in Katmandu toasted each other in orange soda pop and signed an eight-year treaty of trade and friendship drawn up in Peking. Under its terms the first Chinese Communist consulate will shortly open in Katmandu, and other Chinese "trade agencies" will be set up elsewhere on Nehru's side of the Himalayas. "Traders" in both Nepal and Tibet will enjoy diplomatic immunity, be free to transmit messages by wireless code and courier without police inspection...