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This is the first time Harvard is using a balloon rather than a rocket for high altitude observations...
...Lenadoon Avenue area alone. Soon firing flared up in half a dozen Catholic areas, perhaps to divert troops from the Lenadoon hot point. The heaviest action took place in Belfast's Lower Falls area, where troops and gunmen exchanged 3,000 shots and the I.R.A. used rocket launchers for the first time. The toll: 24 dead (including six soldiers) since the fighting began-or 436 since Ulster's siege of unrest began three years...
Almost simultaneously, Israeli jets raided Lebanon in an overreaction to two guerrilla attacks made the day before. At that time two Israeli tourists were wounded in a rocket attack inside Israeli-occupied territory, and two soldiers were hurt by a mine. Now Israeli Skyhawks, in a series of raids that continued through the week, bombed and strafed guerrilla encampments near the slopes of Mount Hermon; scores of fedayeen were reported killed. The Israelis also hit villages in the area. In a town called Hasbaya, curious villagers who rushed out of their houses at the noise became the targets; five died...
...crashed head-on at 80 mph, miraculously killing only seven out of eight occupants). The front-page maze of banner headlines luring readers to inside pages gave way to a single full-column headline atop the new paper; there will be no more 60 pt. "Reds Repelled in Viet Rocket Attack" leading to a five-inch AP story on Page...
Thirty miles to the south, the North Vietnamese sent scores of heavy rocket and artillery rounds crashing into Hue and defense posts on its southern and western perimeter. However, the shellings were not followed up by any attempt to take the old imperial capital...