Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already done three sympathetic documentaries on North Viet Nam, plus others on China and Cuba, had little trouble winning Viet Cong cooperation. After contacting N.L.F. representatives abroad, he made his way to a base camp in the province of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon. How he got there, he says, is a military secret. But "after a march through mud and dense jungle," he wrote in Figaro, his first night at the guerrilla encampment seemed "marvelously comfortable"-even though he slept in a ditch under a corrugated iron roof in a driving rain...
...awoke next morning to see a base camp that was probably the best the Viet Cong had to show. He shot footage of dormitories for the guerrillas, a third of whom are women these days, a school, a laundry, an underground kitchen, an infirmary. At the camp's auditorium, he watched song-and-dance acts as well as movies. For refreshment, there was a daily delivery of U.S. beer from Saigon...
...snowballing needs. Three alternatives emerged. The city could raise the tax rate; it could develop more effective ways of using federal programs; or it could devise some scheme to enable various groups to exploit development opportunities -- a suggestion which had the added attractiveness of increasing the city's tax base. The decision was not very difficult. Raising taxes was politically unwise, and probably the weakest solution in any case. Alternatives two and three remained...
...necessary evil to protect a parliamentary democracy from the Communists; he had seen American activity in Vietnam as a kind of over-flow of Theodore Roosevelt energy. But then he started asking himself how the Viet Cong managed to survive if they didn't have a popular base in South Vietnam. He questioned the U.S. military assumption that only the South Vietnamese Army was mature enough to govern south Vietnam. "Being a patriotic American I felt that people should have the right to determine their own destiny and that in fact the U.S. was imposing a form of government...
...advent of the superjets makes such cooperation even more essential, and no airline is in a better position to benefit than TWA. Currently engaged in a $33 million expansion program that will make its Kansas City base the world's largest jetliner maintenance operation, TWA plans to offer those facilities to other airlines on much the same basis as its deal with Eastern...