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...paratroopers are to seize an airstrip 10 km from the jump site so that, in a real war, thousands more could fly in aboard transport planes. On the way, they will engage two companies of "Aggressors," played by other units from the 82nd Airborne and the Air Force...
Missouri Governor Joseph Teasdale requested utility companies not to shut off service to any delinquent customers during the heat emergency and called out the National Guard to transport heat patients and cooling equipment...
Some U.S. military officials fear that the ties could loosen in response to mutual frustrations. As one example, they note that many of the 1,600 buses the U.S. provided for Egypt's chaotic transport system two years ago have broken down, either through bad maintenance or overloading; some arrived in Egypt without mufflers and produced a grating roar that Cairenes cynically refer to as the "voice of America." U.S. military officials are also concerned about the ability of Egypt's armed forces-considered the best in the Arab world-to cope with the complex U.S. weaponry that...
...riel captured from the disintegrating South Vietnamese army and left behind by U.S. forces. Hanoi's high command has ingeniously combined its multinational matériel. Pilots trained in Moscow fly U.S. A-37 ground-attack jets and F-5 fighter-bombers. Airborne troops drop from Soviet transport planes wearing American parachutes. Chinese-made ships, donated by Peking during the Viet Nam War, have been equipped with new Soviet guns for patrol duty near the Chinese coast...
...exhausting ice hearings, where they were obliged to show that they would not hurt existing firms. Truckers already on the road naturally protested that they would suffer. Timothy Person, a black St. Louis mover of household goods, worked for nearly 30 years to have his company licensed to transport goods outside Missouri. Nine national carriers opposed him, but in February Person finally won a nationwide license...