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When a Lufthansa Boeing 737 with 42 passengers aboard had to take swift evasive action to avoid being rammed by a U.S. Air Force Phantom over Rudesheim on a clear day last July, it seemed like one of the normal hazards of flying in West Germany's overcrowded airspace. But that same day a British airliner approaching Hamburg had a near miss with another jet fighter. Ten days later, another British plane was buzzed by an unidentified Phantom not once but three times, the last pass coming within 100 yds. That could hardly have been accidental...
...BNDD agents nabbed Joseph Berger, 66, a pudgy, balding American who arrived in Southeast Asia 16 years ago and skillfully worked his way up to the top of the drug-smuggling heap. Narcotics agents believe he is the only American to have had face-to-face dealings with "the Phantom," the ubiquitous Chinese who until recently reigned supreme over drug traffic out of Indochina. Four months ago, Berger hauled a 400-lb. load of opium down Thai country roads, bullying his way past police checkpoints into Cambodia. He arrived in Saigon in June for a scheduled meeting with the Phantom...
...plot of the Sellers movie involves a campaign by The Phantom -yes, the comic-strip hero-to extract the 90-year-old Hitler (played by Sellers) from the jungles of South America and bring him to justice. The climax: Adolf's appearance at London's Royal Albert Hall. The Speer bearers will be more sober. Sandy Lieberson, a partner in the British syndicate that owns screen rights to the book, says that while Hitler will figure in their movie, they will eschew a name actor for the role in order to avoid critical comparisons between their Hitler...
...goes down to headquarters to sign the pay book; he gives the officer his entire salary plus a cut of the wage he makes at his regular job. The thousands of soldiers who do nothing more than sign pay books have become known as the "Linh Ma"-the phantom troops. Once a man has been drafted into the army, the name of the game becomes desertion. An estimated one-third of all the men in fighting units have deserted or gone AWOL at some time, and even North Viet Nam's tightly disciplined army has had desertions...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced the loss of three more U.S. Air Force Phantom jets over North Vietnam, with all six crewmen missing...