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...ranks of America's spacemen is already becoming apparent. Apollo 12 Astronaut Dick Gordon recently quit to become executive vice president of pro football's New Orleans Saints, and Apollo 7 Astronaut Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus Christ...
...rapidly assembling one of history's most powerful naval armadas in the Gulf of Tonkin. It was shipping M48 tanks into Danang, landing tank-destroying, guided-missile helicopters from West Germany, reopening a bomber base in Thailand. Fresh fighter-bombers winged into the theater, bringing to 1,000 the number of U.S. planes poised to strike North Viet Nam. The gathering force had been ordered into place by a U.S. President who seemed determined either to blunt the Communist offensive that threatened to overpower such key South Vietnamese cities as Hué and Kontum, or to punish the North...
...rate of infiltration was not as high as it had been in 1970. And yet, on November 17 the French paper Le Monde reported that five U.S. aircraft carriers were cruising along the Vietnamese coast and that there was a great deal of activity at U.S. air bases in Thailand. Le Figaro of the same day reported that the North Vietnamese were strengthening their air defenses in the event of attacks...
...used in Indochina. Parachuted from planes, the acoustic sensors become caught in trees where they pick up "enemy" conversations. Seismic sensors--disguised as tropical plants and animal droppings--detect ground vibrations caused by human movement. The information from both types of sensors is relayed to the central computer in Thailand, where it is used to determine bombing targets. (Although "people sniffers" can now distinguish between Americans and Vietnamese--meat-eating Americans have different chemicals in their perspiration--no sensors have yet been developed to distinguish between the "enemy" and the civilian population. As the head of the Defense Department...
...uncommitted North Vietnamese regiments enter the fighting, airpower would become more vital than ever, and last week the big U.S. buildup continued. Some 600 fighter-bombers were on hand at Danang and at bases in Thailand, as well as aboard the four carriers at Yankee Station. Two other carriers, the Midway and the Saratoga, were en route. As low clouds and drizzle kept U.S. Phantoms on the ground, South Viet Nam's own 700-plane air force took on an important role in the fighting; its ancient but effective Skyraiders, flown with daring by South Vietnamese pilots at treetop...