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Propaganda Ploy. While the North Vietnamese have long since abandoned round-the-clock shelling of the isolated U.S. Marine outpost at Con Thien just south of the DMZ, northernmost I Corps remains the area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into...
Sponsored chiefly by the U.S., the four-year-old International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat) has four satellites in the sky, links 62 nations around the globe and is considered a highly successful outpost of free enterprise in space. It is so successful, in fact, that Russia has decided to bid for a piece of the action. It is now planning its own global space-communications network, Intersputnik...
...blood, but it turns the Congo's victims into plastic participants in a war that is not quite real. The commander (Rod Taylor) and the sergeant (Jim Brown) are at the head of a small band of mercenaries and Congolese troops. Their assignment is to rescue an outpost of helpless whites. Even before the battle begins, however, Brown is forced to restrain Taylor from murdering a murder-bent former Nazi officer. The prize of the battle, once it is joined, is blonde Yvette Mimieux, a sympathetic siren who turns Taylor on by a combination of concupiscence and conscience...
...countries and to levy a $5 fee on travel documents for other East Germans visiting Western Europe. The steps were mild enough, but they were all the West seemed prepared to do for now to counter the new threat to the continued well-being of its vital and symbolic outpost...
...sort out the details of where some of his brother's children will attend school next year and make other domestic arrangements. Normally, Bobby's brood would have been planning last week for a summer in Hyannisport, a logistical move approximating the establishment of an Antarctic outpost. Now the move will be delayed for at least a week...