Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saigon's first priority, however, is to get its people-especially those who swarmed into the cities in pursuit of U.S. dollars-accustomed to the idea that the days of easy money and easy goods are over. When the U.S. buildup was in progress, the regime encouraged massive imports (800,000 motorbikes came in during one two-year period) as one way of damping the inflationary effects of the massive influx of U.S. dollars. Two years ago, when the U.S. pullout began, Saigon tried to cut down the flow of goods through heavy import taxes, but the main effect...
Three Factors. The winter season is always the time of heaviest infiltration from the North. If a big attack is to come by Tet in February, or even later, it must be preceded by an enemy buildup over the next two months. The President noted that the infiltration rate is lower than usual at the moment. He added: "We want to see, however, what the situation is in December and January, because that will determine what the activity will be in April, May, June and July on the battlefield...
...claim to a seat, but was also engaged in an epic struggle to save a place in the General Assembly for the embattled, Taiwan-based Nationalist regime of Mao's old enemy, Chiang Kaishek. But with the special antimagic that the U.N. seems to possess in abundance, the buildup to the climax dissolved into hours of stiff speechifying, interspersed with moments of bizarre and totally unrelated melodrama...
NUCLEAR ARMS. Nixon hinted that arms control will top the agenda. Even as Pentagon officials were warning of a continuing Soviet arms buildup, Nixon said that he and Soviet leaders should be able to agree "that neither major power can get a decisive advantage over the other" so as to launch "a pre-emptive nuclear attack" or "engage in international blackmail." Defense Secretary Melvin Laird seemed to be arguing that the U.S.S.R. was seeking such an advantage when he told a press conference last week that the Soviet navy was building nuclear missile submarines at a rate that would enable...
Even with such sophisticated tools as strain gauges, laser beams and magnetometers to determine the buildup of dangerous stresses in the earth, scientists have had little success in forecasting major earthquakes. But as they have attempted to develop more complex quake-prediction devices, they may have been overlooking a simple one that predates man. A U.S. Government scientist reports that nature itself may provide a primitive early-warning system in the periodic eruptions of spectacular geysers like Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful...