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South Korean President Park Chung Hee was formally notified of U.S. plans for the troop withdrawal last week by Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During a three-hour session in the Blue House, the presidential mansion in central Seoul, Park took the news-by then hardly a surprise-calmly and thanked his visitors for all the U.S. has done for his country. He was aware, Park said, that the G.I.s could not remain in Korea forever...
Down at our level, we have some pretty fancy electronic gear too. There's SOTAS-stand-off target acquisition systems-which use moving target radar to tell us exactly where enemy troops are massing. And REMBASS, which stands for remotely monitored battlefield sensor system. It uses acoustic and seismic sensors to fill in any gaps in surveillance -say, where the terrain "blinds" a radar system. They had something like it in Viet Nam to detect troop movements. One of these years, we'll be getting RPVS -remotely piloted vehicles (don't you like all the initials?). That...
...grass. At night, they bicycled and walked down narrow dirt paths flanking Bumba's roadblocks. Dozens of Katangese stole into Mutshatsha, hiding in the homes of sympathizers who are outraged by the army's looting. Others perched in trees near the town and dropped grenades into crowded troop trucks as they went...
Chinese-made military trucks and Soviet troop carriers clog the rickety Long Bien bridge over the Red River, hauling sand and gravel to reconstruction projects around the city. The army has been pressed into service restoring communications, repairing roads, digging irrigation canals and even harvesting rice...
...survived several previous attempts on his life, Ngouabi, 38, was long a bitter enemy of Zaïre's Mobutu. His tiny (pop. 1.3 million), dirt-poor country has enjoyed Soviet patronage for years, and its airport served in 1975 as a convenient refueling point for Cuban troop planes bound to aid Angola's M.P.L.A. guerrillas. Ngouabi's killing-which Radio Brazzaville laid to "imperialist commandos"-was apparently the work of one Captain Kikadidi, who managed to escape while most of his assassination squad was cut down. An eleven-man military junta assumed power in the Congo...