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...materiel are flowing down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the southern battlefields than at any time since the war began-perhaps as many as 30,000 a month v. 6,000 monthly a year ago. With a ruthless disregard for civilian lives, the Communists, in almost daily rocket attacks and periodic, suicidal infantry thrusts, have brought the fighting to Saigon, turning the city into a nightmare of fear, destruction and random death. The war, which used to be something remote that took place in rice fields and jungles, has come to stay in the capital ever since the first...
...Hanoi got its headlines, its pictures of whole blocks on fire and of the suffering of the capital's 60,000 newly homeless refugees. As a postscript, and to celebrate Ho Chi Minh's 78th birthday, the Communists last week launched a fresh shelling of Saigon; one rocket narrowly missed the palace, where President Nguyen Van Thieu and his family were sleeping...
...near the U.S. Embassy, another close to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's residence. Numerous shells landed in the Chinese section, Cholon. But the main enemy target was Newport, the U.S. dock facilities in the Saigon River, where Communist forces unsuccessfully attempted to follow up a mortar and rocket attack with an assault. Within two hours the city had largely become quiet again. The Communists also shelled, among other cities, Hué, Pleiku, Can Tho, Kontum, My Tho and Quang Tri. Four U.S. Marines were killed and six wounded when five mortar rounds hit the Danang headquarters of Marine Commander...
After a nearly flawless maiden flight in November, the Saturn 5 moon rocket ran into so many difficulties during its second mission last month that NASA officials feared yet another unmanned flight would be necessary before the rocket could be trusted to carry astronauts into space. Now, after a careful review of the troubles that cropped up in flight, NASA has decided that it can probably correct them all and make Saturn 5 safe enough to carry a manned Apollo spacecraft into orbit this November or December. By eliminating another unmanned test of the huge rocket, NASA would save about...
Jarred Astronauts. Failure of the third-stage rocket engine to restart later in the mission was tentatively traced to a broken line that supplied hydrogen to the ignition system. Without an ignition flame, the engine could not be restarted. To reduce the possibility of future breaks in the stainless-steel fuel lines, flexible joints in the lines will be either eliminated or greatly strengthened...