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Escape From Alcatraz ls Probed ‘

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) FBI agents are pushing an In- tensive inquiry into the Sunday night flight of two bank robbers from Alcatraz—the island home lot the nation's toughest con- victs. Both were recaptured within three hours from rocks

chilly San Francisco Bay.

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Bennett announced last June following the esc of three convicts. that Alcatraz would be

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LEH. India (AP>~indian and American pilots flying in the massive Himalayas provide the lifeline to this remote valley of monasteries. where the war with Communist China has 1broken the centuries-old quiet.

At 11,200 eet. Leh's steel- planked runway is’ one of the world's highest airports. On days when clouds lift from the mountain passes It Is also one of the busiest. with up to 25 planes an hour carrying weap- ons. foo and equipment for troops facing the Communist ceasefire line in Ladakh.

Buddhist monks and as chunky Russian - built Ilyushin 145. U.S.-made D033 and C-119 flying boxcars from the Indian air force swoop along the Indus River Valley to land.

straining to reach altitudes thousands of feet higher than they are designed to fly. the unpressurized p I a n e s buck through the winds of the Himal- ayas in Zogi Pass. Their wing tips almost seem to brush snow from the jagged peaks less than a mile away and towering above the flight route. Pilots breathe from oxygen masks.

TOP MOUNTAINS

The big C-i305 fly high above the mountains that stretch white and meancing as far as the eye can seen

But the weather Is so unpre- dictable planes can land at Leh only about 180 days a year. Indian officers report.

‘ the Himalayan passes blocked by winter snows. Le and all of Ladakh relies on the airlift.

The last army convoy to reach here by road took eight days to fight through snowdrifts on the 245 - mile road from Srinagar, capital of Kashmir.

Leh is the supply centre for all of Ladakh and India's north- west front against China. From here. supplies are taken remote outposts by parachute airdrops. lengthy hauls over switchhack mountain roads or lthrough the high passes by learavans. yaks or ponies. iFOLLOWS OLD PATTERN I As a supply centre. Leh is following an historic role. The ancient town once was a pros-

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p h . A s . 9 gleE winding unqualified support to the Amei-l appear Thursday_

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Ionly recently—In I948 when the! The advertisement compt‘testof [he 'first military vehicle arrived. 3for attention with ads on other! ' I The mod plastered stone pages of the express for Scotch! ;houses of Leh's 4.000 inhabitants whisky, Christmas turkeys and spread out from a main }street r a cure for coughing at night. ‘ churned to mud by the s aggy The Express draws attention. yaks. ponies and donkeys. lto the advertisement in an! Hende son and Pigtailed. slant - eyed men in l editorial on another page. I

felt boots androbes and twomenl "The Daily Express believes; in tall hats With sheelpskln: mild I that within the bounds imposed babies sung from t eir ac st

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CASTLE DOMINATES : i The scene is dominated by tlie a: ‘ massive stone and mud caste‘ a of the Rajah of Leh on a hilltop 1 G00” 0“: above the town. MONEY. Although the Chinese infantry 0 BACK’

is no closer than 160 miles from I‘»Huo+oouoouo~o-u+

Leh by road, the undeclared war with Peking has broughtl changes.

The Rajah has taken an army . commission. A bright red gaso- lline pump now stands next to a‘ lprayer wall of stones. I

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from frostbite or pneumonia—t are flown out of the isolated posts and emergency supplies! are flown in by a fleet of Soviet- built helicopters. Eight Indian‘ pilots. all trained in the Soviet; Union, risk their lives daily by flying their bulky grey machines far beyond what their Russian builders set as their limitations.

The helicopters are designed to fly to 15.000 feet and land not higher than 6.000. Rattling with effort. they grind their way to 20.000 feet and land as high as 16,000 feet in air almost too thin .to catch the rotor blades.

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