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New Delhi, India, May. 6 (UPI) -- When U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta came calling to India earlier this year, France failed to read the meaning of his trip. A few days later, India's international carrier, Air India, inked a fledging $7-billion deal with Boeing to supply 50 aircrafts. The Boeing order has left the rival Airbus Industrie out in the cold, and the French company is crying foul over the deal, demanding a probe into the Air India order. Paris has stepped into the controversy saying Boeing's deal smacked of more than business interests. ---excerpt----- . "They (the French)...

On Feb 28, 1969, I was officer in charge of PCF-23, one of three Swift boats - including Kerry's PCF-94 and Lt. j.g. Donald Droz's PCF-43 - that carried Vietnamese Regional and Popular Force troops and a Navy demolition team up the Dong Cung, a narrow tributary of the Bay Hap River, to conduct a sweep of the area. Ambushes were a virtual certainty, and that day was no exception. The Viet Cong in the area had come to expect that the heavily loaded boats would lumber on past an ambush, firing at the entrenched attackers, beaching upstream and putting...

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