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...flung network of airfields, supply depots and naval facilities abuilding in Thailand, the U.S. will soon be able to rush aid to any threatened ally in Asia. Should the British leave Singapore, as they may do by the 1970s, the new U.S. military complex would constitute the only Western outpost of any consequence from the Sea of Japan to the Indian Ocean...
...will not share it. On the day that his letter was delivered, Captain Rod was going to the relief of a government outpost that was under attack and overrun, when he was killed. Back in New Orleans, he leaves a wife and his own five children, ranging in age from 18 months to eight years. In Due Pho, he also leaves a legacy of love. Six and a half tons of soap and clothes go from New Orleans this week to Rod's wards. The Clarion Herald plans to continue the fund drive for his orphanage. Said the paper...
Crime & Punishment. There is an eleven-year gap in the legend-until 1836, when a tall stranger with a flowing beard and erect military bearing rode into the Siberian outpost of Krasnoufimsk on a white horse. He carried his right hand on his hip in the manner of the late Czar; he spoke fluent French and a kind of Russian that was half church-Slavic, half Latin; he carried an icon with the initials A.I. The peasants began to wonder if this might not be Alexander the Blessed. When the stranger, who gave his name as Fyodor Kuzmich but could...
First hit was a montagnard patrol-it was decimated by a scythe of small-arms fire. Then a 20-man outpost in a clearing below the fort was overrun-the defenders died in their bunkers. At the main fort, U.S. Special Forces Captain Harold M. Moore radioed for help. Soon flare ships were splashing naked light over enemy positions as the Reds' recoilless rifles slammed round after round through the camp's longhouses. The 2,300-odd montagnard women and children living at Plei Me disappeared underground for a week-long hibernation. All, that is, but the older...
...most active U.S. bank overseas, Citibank this week will open its 127th foreign outpost in Colombia's port city of Cartagena. This year it has sprouted eight other foreign branches from West Berlin to Kuala Lumpur. At home, it has blanketed New York City and suburbs with 151 branches, fully exploiting its status as the city's only nationally chartered bank, thus being exempt from New York State's strict limits on branching. Hoping to catch up with Citibank, stockholders of Chase Manhattan last week voted to switch to a national charter...