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...tanks, about 450 are Russian medium tanks, and about 300 Indian-made Vijayanta tanks. India has 625 combat aircraft, including some 120 MIG-21 supersonic fighters and eight squadrons of Indian-made Gnats. For its part, Pakistan has about 1,100 tanks, including 200 American Patton tanks, 225 Chinese T-59s, and numerous old American Shermans and Chaffees of limited utility. Pakistan's 285 combat aircraft include two squadrons of Mirage 111 fighters and eight squadrons of American F-86 Sabres...
...think: what if it had been made ten years ago? Or: what if Nixon had seen Hoa Binh twice instead of Patton...
...tree stump. Ann's van also carries a cooler, a Coleman stove and lantern, and her boyfriend's motorcycle, which he rides ahead of the van on long trips. Other vans have kerosene lanterns, candles mounted on inner walls, and even potted plants. Charles Patton, 39, goes camping in a 1957 VW beetle that "some hippie kids" helped him convert into a plywood paneled home that sleeps two, has a portable sink and four stained-glass windows. Says John Shaw, 18, who has just completed a transcontinental trek in his converted '56 truck...
Irritated in Athens. The loophole in the aid-to-Greece clause was big enough to drive a Patton tank through, and it was virtually certain that the Administration would do just that. Greece's role in NATO and the U.S. Navy's need for Sixth Fleet bases in the eastern Mediterranean could easily be construed as "overriding requirements." The net effect of the House vote, if the Senate concurs, would be to cut military aid to the colonels from Nixon's requested $118 million in this fiscal year to $90 million, the same level as last year...
...companies are the biggest losers. They have invested $1.5 billion on the North Slope. Because the oil has not yet begun to flow out, the companies are losing $300 million to $400 million in annual revenues. Complains Ed Patton, president of Alyeska Pipeline, an oil-company consortium: "The costs are increasing dramatically each month. The interest alone on our investment runs to some $90 million annually." Moreover, the final cost of the pipeline may well be double the original estimate and hit $2 billion, owing to inflation and some highly complex engineering difficulties...