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THESE restrictions on the Ambassador's control over the bombing were dramatically illustrated by the bombing of Sap Nao in September 1967. Sap Nao was a small village in northern Laos, about two miles from a communist off-landing area near Highway 19. The CIA, arguing that ammunition was being stored in Sap Nao, put it forth as a target for bombing on four separate occasions. The Ambassador refused to authorize it each time, on the grounds that there was no evidence that it was an arms depot and that as a village it was thus off-limits...
...November 1967, however, a reconnaissance aircraft accidentally strayed off target and happened to photograph Sap Nao. A routine chick of the film revealed that the village had been obliterated. Unofficial investigations showed that CIA personnel on their own initiative had instructed AIE pilots of the 56th Special Operations Wing at Nakhorn Phanom Air Force base in Thailand to bomb Sap Nao. The pilots, unaware that the Ambassador had not approved the target, had made the strikes. It was later established as well that in fact no ammunition had been stored in the village...
Delmonico's, Wall Street's favorite restaurant, is crowded again and, despite the chill of midwinter, the speculative sap is rising in Manhattan's brokerage community. Last week the Dow-Jones average climbed for the fourth straight week, closing at 888.83, the highest in 20 months; on one day, trading volume on the New York Exchange set a new record: 28,250,000 shares. One single trade of 3,248,000 shares of Allis-Chalmers, the largest in history, exceeded the average daily volume of the Big Board eleven years...
...Hazen's and God know's where Else's are ecologically unsound. Think, if you can for this moment of the vibrant trees thrusting themselves towards the sun from the earth. yearning to breathe free like you or me, that must be cut down in the full sap of their youth to wrap a roast beef special...
...tide of parental and congressional revulsion from violence. By that time, broadcasters had evolved a highly sensible plan. If "adult" evening programming was immature, why not allow it to rerun during the children's hours, where it might meet its intellectual level? Thus the Flintstones' "Pa's a Sap" approach now runs every day. Bewitched is a daily staple; so are The Beverly Hillbillies and F Troop. Today the rerun is no longer a method of picking up the small change; it is programmed into children's video. An animated segment costs the networks about $60,000. The cost...