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Landing in Rabat in his unscathed plane, Brezhnev found Moroccans in a mood to credit the Russian version of the incident. Tearfully, Moroccan Minister of Information Ahmed Alaoui recalled the French capture four years ago of a planeload of Algerian leaders on the way back to Tunis after a conference in Morocco. "Every time Morocco has guests, France refuses to respect the rules of good will," he complained...
...fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica of Lafayette's villa in France, at Easton, Pa., frequently flies in a planeload of friends for Lafayette College games. He has an 1812 mansion in Morristown, NJ., which he has converted into an office, commutes to Manhattan twice a week. He lives on a 64-acre estate in nearby Harding Township with his wife Marian, close to their four children...
...drowned in gardens, balconied tenements, squatters' huts clinging to bare rock, bright new skyscrapers still wrapped in bamboo scaffolding. Coming in low over rooftops fluttering with blue and white laundry, the jet roars down upon the 8,000-foot runway of Kai Tak Airport. Thus, last week, another planeload of tourists landed amid the sights, sounds, smells and bracing excitement of Hong Kong...
PORTABLE ATOMIC REACTOR, lightest of its kind, will be installed by U.S. Army in Greenland. Weighing 310 tons, unit will produce heat and lights for 100-man base, run for a year on one planeload of uranium...
...Pacific coast of the U.S. Canal Zone. Just after sunup, a company of Brazilian paratroopers tumbled out of U.S. Air Force turboprop transports over the zone after a 500-mile flight from Bogotá, Colombia. Next came 1,175 men of the crack U.S. 82nd Airborne and a planeload of Colombian soldiers. Chilean and Peruvian F-80 jets joined U.S. F-100 Super Sabres to provide air support. For the first time, in "Exercise Banyan Tree II," Latin nations were joining the U.S. in a peacetime maneuver...