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...miles. Weighing a total of only some 150 Ibs., propelled by a Lilliputian fanjet engine and fed by a back-riding fuel depot of seven to ten gallons of kerosene, the new jet is aimed at superseding a current experimental backpack that is operated by rocket thrust and has a range of only 860 ft. Though it will be a year before the new system can be proved feasible, scientists at Bell Aerosystems Co., which developed both the old and new jet belts, are optimistic. The Pentagon has invested $2,000,000 in the project, believes that it can drastically...
Iron Handle. The 36-ft. radar-guided Russian SAMs carried Ho Chi Minh's main thrust-and fizzled. Twenty-three SAMs were fired at U.S. planes last week, including a record 16 on a single day. All missed, thanks to a highly sophisticated defense-part electronic trickery, part "jinking" (violent evasive maneuvers)-used by U.S. pilots. When a mission goes in, radar-rigged C121 Constellations, called "the Big Eyes," orbit off the Tonkin coast, able to pick up a missile launch at the moment of ignition. The Big Eyes flash an instantaneous radio warning to the fighter-bomber pilots...
...Outer Thrust & Inner Fear
...that would allow supervised police wiretapping and bugging, but concedes it would be better to outlaw the practice altogether (except for national security purposes) than to continue the present confused situation. The wider dilemma is much harder to cope with: how to preserve privacy not only against the outer thrust of modern life but the inner fear of solitude...
...Binh Dinh province, where 14 teams have already secured 14 hamlets, got 34 village self-help projects under way and resettled 6,500 people, five officials have been assassinated by the Communists. But, says former U.S. Marine Major Richard Kriegel, the spark behind Binh Dinh's pacification thrust: "The reaction of the people now is that this is going to happen, but they're ready to live with it, accept it -and fight back...