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Last week Robbie's wife and five sons on Okinawa learned that he was missing. Risner's flight of six F-105 Thunderchiefs, said the official report, had streaked off on a late-morning mission against a "military target" near the Phu De Van Chan mountain range, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi. The weather was clear, visibility good, and the jets dumped three tons of bombs on the site. But the airmen had to brave a murderous curtain of ground fire from mounted .50-cal. machine guns and 37-mm. cannon. Risner's jet and that...
Horseshoe Trap. According to New Delhi, the major Pakistani counterattack was directed at the Indians before Kasur, which was chosen as the target because a Pakistani breakthrough would permit either a drive toward New Delhi or an attack northward that would cut across the Indian rear. The assault was mounted by the 1st Armored Division, reputed to be the best in the Pakistan army. The Indian strategy resembled that of Hannibal when he caught the Romans in a baglike trap and decimated them at Cannae. The Pakistani armored column burst through the first Indian line and plunged on only...
...target of both Presidents' outbursts was Otto Passman, the Tabasco-tempered Democrat from Monroe, La., who for the past ten years has devoted most of his abrasive energies to the task of slashing foreign aid bills. As chairman of House Appropriations' foreign operations subcommittee, Passman, a graduate of Bogalusa Commercial Business College, has long been convinced that the best way to lose foreign friends is to "start supporting them with gifts and favors." Wielding what he calls "a countryman's ax" on global giveaways, Passman since 1955 has been principally responsible for trimming presidential aid requests...
Thus, by the end of this week the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam will have reached President Johnson's target of 125,000 men, announced only last July 28-an increase of 50,000 in just six weeks. Soon that total will be surpassed; by year's end the U.S. will have more than 150,000 uniformed men in Viet Nam, not including the sailors and airmen of the Seventh Fleet, nor the crews of the giant B-52s based on Guam-all very much a part of the burgeoning war, as the Viet Cong can painfully attest...
Lady Bird's Must. Outdoor advertising is an obvious target for beautifiers. To oppose the billboard bills that Lyndon Johnson says he "must have for Lady Bird" is like supporting crime in the streets. Yet the major offense to the eye is the neon jungie of on-premise signs of used-car lots, drive-in restaurants and souvenir stands on the out skirts of most U.S. towns. The new bills leave these untouched. Instead, they call for elimination of all billboards for 660 feet on either side of a federal highway or primary roadway outside commercial or industrial areas...