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...choppers assigned to Lam Son have been sorely taxed for several reasons. For one thing, Communist mines and ambushes have upset plans to supply the main ARVN column (10,000 men) on Route 9 by road. In combat, ARVN commanders have often been unable to spell out their needs in comprehensible English when faced with real trouble. Hill 31 was overrun largely because the first Cobra gunships on the scene carried no armor-piercing rockets: the ARVN officer who radioed for support forgot to mention that 20 snarling Communist tanks were churning up to his defense perimeter...
...indication of the current U.S. effort was President Nixon's "State of the World" address last week. Arab officials took careful note of the President's endorsement of Arab demands for the return of captured territories (though he did not spell out which border rectifications Washington would support) and his call for an equitable solution of the Palestine refugee problem (though he did not suggest a specific solution). "The U.S. President," said the Beirut newspaper Al Jarida approvingly, "is trying to strike a balance in the U.S. position." Cairo's Al Ahram detected "new elements...
...scalpel. One computer has synthesized the tone of a trumpet so authentically that experts cannot distinguish it from a genuine trumpet blast. In fact, the cybernetic sweep has reached so far that one harassed Manhattanite placed an ad last week in the New York Times begging computers to spell his name correctly: Ruben Morris...
Winthrop got two goals and an assist from center Nicho Sullivan and a goal and an assist from his winger Bill Hobbs. Cabie Warren, back in the nets after a spell at defense, turned in a sensational job for a former JV defenseman...
...Paris last week, Revel took note of what he terms the "breathing spell" in the U.S. "This is a period of stabilization," he said. "The radicals, the Weatherman, the Black Panthers have put water in their wine. They're not backtracking, but they now understand better what must be done if they're to be effective. They realize that extremism, pure violence, cuts them off from protesting youth." But the revolution, in Revel's terms, has not been defused. "The left's ideas of five or six years ago have been adopted and are now being digested by large sectors...