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...other Communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail through southern Laos, would involve high stakes. Among the possibilities would be a serious defeat for the South Vietnamese army or, conversely, an ARVN victory that could close the Ho Chi Minh Trail's vital flow of Communist supplies southward. The entire situation in Indochina could change drastically...
While the 207,000-ton supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were...
Most of the 150 war planes from the two carriers joined up to 400 air force aircraft flying from bases in Thailand and South Vietnam in what the U. S. command called a campaign to stem the flow of North Vietnamese war material southward...
...spokesmen said other supersonic jest from the Hancock equipped with spy gear including highly sophisticated cameras streaked into North Vietnam to photograph supply buildups awaiting shipment southward...
...mood turned to alarm on Sunday morning, Sept. 20, when Syrian tanks rolled southward to relieve pressure on the commandos. Israeli troops began massing along the Jordanian border to the west. Nixon asked Secretary of State William Rogers to warn the Russians again. He did so, in the sternest note that the Nixon Administration has yet sent to Moscow. It threatened the "gravest consequences" if the Syrians did not withdraw...