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Lost Sight. A British frigate glimpsed the Santa Maria sailing in the general direction of Africa, but then, surprisingly, lost sight of it. Four U.S. destroyers, two tankers, a nuclear sub and 18 planes combed the area, but found nothing. The pirated liner seemed to have vanished from the map until a Danish freighter, chugging along a normal shipping lane, radioed that it had passed the Santa Maria and exchanged greetings. At the Pentagon press room in Washington, someone put up an ironical sign reading: "Sleep soundly tonight. The Danish merchant marine is watching over...
...special assistant for national security affairs Bundy will be secretary to the National Security Council and will be in charge of coordinating its long range planning. In the beginning, Bundy is expected to be busy considering reorganization of the council and its sub-committees, which have been heavily criticized for inefficiency...
...year the U.S. allotted $9,000,000 worth of aid to Latin American navies (v. $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 annually prior to the buildup), will spend $5,000,000 to train crews. Latin navies have been supplied with no sonar-equipped destroyer escorts, destroyers, minesweepers and subs under the program, and plans call for 18 more in the next few years. Argentina (which, like Brazil, has a modernized, British-built aircraft carrier) is organizing its own sub-hunting task force...
Successful Maneuvers. Last August Burke and his aides launched Operation Unitas, an unprecedented, four-month, South American antisub exercise. A U.S. task force centered around the sub Odax rendezvoused first with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that...
...carrying out maneuvers via the International General Signal Book. As the Odax pulled every trick in the submariner's book, the South Americans learned the newest ship-maneuvering techniques, how to handle the most modern MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) and sonar gear to track, corner and kill the sub. Sonar operators even learned how to tell the type of sub by the quality of its "ping...