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...troops fanned out in a long half-moon and moved toward the canals that bordered the palm jungle. AD6 attack bombers circled the paddies and tried to flush the Viet Cong into the open with rockets and napalm jelly. Suddenly a spotter plane picked out a group of fleeing Viet Cong guerrillas and dropped a smoke grenade. Fire from rifles and automatic weapons killed five of the Viet Cong, but two dozen more escaped into the trees. During the ear-shattering, three-minute exchange of fire, a farmer at the edge of the trees placidly kept plowing his field...
...began his gubernatorial maneuvering this year, Bill Green insisted that his polls showed that Dilworth could not win and would not even carry Philadelphia, where Dilworth moved belatedly last year to clean up a scandal in the city government. Dilworth imported Pollster Lou Harris, Jack Kennedy's trend spotter. Harris found Dilworth the strongest possible Democrat in the field, and told the President so. Despite the fact that Green had helped Kennedy win both the Democratic nomination and Pennsylvania's 32 electoral votes in 1960. Green got the word from the White House to get out of Dilworth...
...Land. Next morning, when the word of Lumumba's escape got back to the Elisabethville headquarters of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe, officials scurried into action, calling conferences, mobilizing troops. Out went a helicopter and a small spotter plane to scan the back roads for signs of a speeding car. There was little chance of the fugitives crossing an Angolan border point, for the heavily armed Portuguese police would hardly welcome a notorious revolutionary at this stage (see below). If Lumumba was free, a safer bet was that he and his friends were making their way toward...
...track rail line leading into Katanga from Kasai were ripped up, and armed Katangans with dynamite rushed out to block the few dirt roads at the Kasai frontier. Most of Tshombe's force was a ragtag outfit, but Belgian officers at Kamina airbase were openly supplying him with spotter planes and tactical advice. At week's end the Lumumba troops paused 20 miles from the frontier, awaiting the attack order. Unlike Kalonji's Mining State, Katanga would scarcely fall without a fight-a fight that the 4,000 U.N. troops stationed in Katanga presumably would watch...
...their efforts, the Chinese could not organize a search big enough to trap the Dalai Lama. Proceeding mostly at night to avoid Red spotter planes, the royal fugitive dispensed with all ritual. (Normally, any place where the Dalai Lama stays automatically becomes sacred and may not be used again as a dwelling.) Once across the Tsangpo and protected by jubilant Khamba tribesmen, he took a course unanticipated by the Chinese, headed for the Indian border town of Towang in the wild and wooded plateau region of Assam province...