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...missions out there and three losses in a thousand in combat, while flying tougher missions than any other aircraft over there, is notable. We have no plans to stand down the aircraft." U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff General John D. Ryan recently returned from Ta Khli Air Force Base in Thailand and told TIME, "The crews are still eager, and they're still flying missions. I've had my own check ride in the F-111 and it's a hell of an airplane...
...heroic defense against Viet Cong attackers in 1963, was the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Viet Nam. Donlon himself was wounded four times in the firefight, but he refused medical aid until his men were treated. Donlon, 38, today is a major serving in Thailand...
Park's move came as an embarrassing surprise to Washington, which over the past two years has watched Cambodia, South Viet Nam, Thailand and the Philippines-nations once known as "Free Asia"-shed the last vestiges of democracy. The U.S. at present has more ground troops (43,000) in South Korea than in South Viet Nam and annually provides Park's regime with $240 million in economic aid. Washington informed Park that it saw no justification for the imposition of martial law. U.S. disenchantment deepened after Park forwarded a confidential outline of his constitutional proposals. As everyone suspected...
...plans to bomb Hanoi with B-52's. In the wider Southeast Asian frame, the Peking Review has carried a report that the U.S. supported regime in Bangkok has recently begun dropping "chemical bombs" and "plastic bags containing the eggs of insect pests" in three northern provinces of Thailand...
Harpoons. Why all the federal interest in blue-water commerce? Administration officials contend that a strong, modern merchant marine is still a necessary defense asset. Says Maritime Administrator Blackwell: "We don't want trouble, but if we have trouble in the Middle East or Thailand, we'll need those ships again." The case for building a "bridge of ships" to foreign trouble spots is questionable at best; the number of troops ferried to Viet Nam by ship, for example, was negligible. Moreover, the lavish subsidies violate the Nixon Administration's free-trade philosophy, which generally holds that...