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...officials. Fluent in French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have married and fathered children, but his family has been kept as hidden from foreign eyes as the bargaining points he carries to Paris inside his head...
Whether the allied force of some 12,000 men would attempt to root out the North Vietnamese gunners dug into the hills above them remained to be seen. But, in any case, the allies are not likely to elect to stay in A Shau, given the weather and the number of men who would be tied down in de fending it. Instead, Operation Delaware aimed to even an old score for the men of the Special Forces who fell there in 1966-and to destroy all the equipment and tools of war the Communists have so painstakingly assembled...
Faculty members who have not already committed themselves to summers away from Harvard will run the special session, Graves said. "There will probably be about six professors here," he said. "Several of them were planning to stay in Cambridge and do research, but now they have agreed to teach...
...Laver, 29, currently the world's No. 1 professional, to repair the damage. In the semifinals, Laver beat Cox easily 6-4, 6-1, 6-0. Nevertheless, Giant Killer Cox had served fair warning: tennis' pros had better tend to business if they want to stay on top of the game...
...increasing their sales efforts. "The majority of airlines in the U.S., the Western Hemisphere and overseas requiring planes of this type are still uncommitted," said McDonnell Douglas Chairman James S. McDonnell. Thus even Boeing, which has yet to sell a single airbus, figures that it is still worthwhile to stay in the fight...