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Harold Wilson paid a four-day call on Nigeria last week, his R.A.F. VC-10 borne from London to Lagos on symbolic currents of hope that the British Prime Minister can somehow nudge one of the world's wars toward a negotiating table...
...vehemence with which Communist troops tried to take Landing Zone Grant indicated to some that they desperately wanted to reopen the infiltration route that leads toward Saigon. Other reports also suggested that key enemy units -including the elite 7th NVA Division and the 9th VC Division, which had taken part in every recent attack on the capital-were moving out of their sanctuaries and toward Saigon. Did that mean the offensive was about to enter a new phase of heavy fighting? Intelligence experts could not be certain. Some captured evidence pointed strongly to just that-as did a fresh shower...
...also collect $1,500,000 for each of two destroyed Caravelles that were really worth about $900,000 apiece, and more than the market value for one lost Viscount. The new Boeing 707 is expected to bring $8,500,000, roughly what it cost. The eighth gutted plane, a VC-10, was on charter from Ghana Airways, and MEA is not responsible for its loss...
...Airways Corp. While those two lines were awarded the profitable high-density routes, Eagle got hand-me-downs; it was authorized to fly to such secondary tourist centers as Rimini and Gerona. The government really plucked Eagle's feathers when it decided to ferry troops overseas aboard R.A.F. VC-10s instead of Eagle planes. Finally, when BOAC complained that Eagle was trying to turn a low-rate, special-tour authorization to the Caribbean into a regular run, the licensing board revoked Eagle's authorization to fly there. It thereby wiped away $5,000,000 in annual revenues...
...proud that we have been setting the airline pace for the rest of black Africa," and now he is stepping it up. The international operations, which already include service to London, Paris, Rome, Bombay, Karachi and Aden, have just been expanded with flights to Athens. And after its fourth VC-10 arrives this year, E.A.A. will move on to Bangkok, then to Hong Kong, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland...