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...Concession. While this activity went on behind the lines, the fate of troops at the front was still shrouded in a mist of claims and counterclaims. First, the federal troops of Major General Yakubu Gowon announced that they had captured the university town of Nsukka on the wooded northwestern plateau of Biafra, after days of shelling it with heavy mortars and howitzers. Radio Biafra grudgingly conceded the federal victory but accused the federals of using "white mercenaries who were painted black"-though no unprejudiced observer has spotted any such creatures. Then, next day, it proclaimed that Nsukka had been recaptured...
...roaming his adopted state, from the northeast, where the Ozark foothills blend into the Mississippi River flatlands, to the southwest plains, where watermelon is king. Last week he toured the Central Valley, a region studded with pulp and paper mills. The week before, he turned up in the high plateau country of the northwest, where he paid a call in Huntsville on Orval Faubus, his predecessor. Instead of lodging a complaint, Citizen Faubus heard one: Rockefeller had not received the past two issues of Faubus' newspaper, the Madison County Record...
...numerous and meandering that local authorities estimated that it would take a full regiment of men working for about a month to comb the area. The only clue came from a cook in a Lutheran-mission bungalow, who said that she had seen Thompson standing on a nearby plateau for about 30 minutes. Then, she reported, "suddenly he disappeared." By week's end, no trace of him had been found...
...military budget actually represents a leveling off in the U.S. buildup in Viet Nam. American strength in Southeast Asia will continue to grow, along with its cost, but the pace of expansion will decelerate dramatically for two good reasons. One is that the U.S. has already reached a high plateau of power. Of equal significance, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara reported last week, the Viet Cong, during the last half of 1966, "appear to have lost about as many men as they were able to infiltrate from North Viet Nam and recruit in South Viet Nam." Quoting current intelligence estimates, McNamara...
...most ambitious of all gubernatorial pipedreams was put forward by Walter Hickel, Alaska's first Republican Governor (its second Governor since statehood), who envisioned a new railroad that would stretch 500 miles across the state's high plateau from Fairbanks to Nome. The line would connect with the 470-mile line, known affectionately as the "Moose Gooser," currently running from Seward to Fairbanks. And, said Hickel, it would open Alaska to development just as the transcontinental railroad opened the West in 1869. Who knows? If the détente with Russia flourishes, the line-if it is built...