Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blames much of its trouble on former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's Total Package Procurement, under which the company agreed in 1965 to deliver the C-5A four years later at a fixed price. In between came inflation and shortage of parts and machinery during the Viet Nam buildup of the mid-1960s. The result, says a Lockheed spokesman, was "the emergence of catastrophic risk-risk of a magnitude that could bankrupt defense contractors and their subcontractors, and perhaps even threaten the survival of their creditors...
...techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh from contracting as it heals; pressure bandages kept in place 24 hours a day control the buildup of scar tissue and prevent the formation of disfiguring welts. As a result, burn patients who might once have had to undergo a long series of corrective and cosmetic operations can now avoid surgery in three out of four cases...
...Nixon developed a case of cold feet?as some sources suggested but the Administration denied? Whatever the case, the operation suggested that in the process of retreating from South Viet Nam, the U.S. was churning up all of Indochina even more thoroughly than it did when the big American buildup began half a decade...
Intelligence officers ticked off indications of a major Communist buildup, including a flood of supplies in the Laotian pipeline. According to the briefers, 90% of the materiel earmarked for South Viet Nam was being shunted into I Corps. The buildup obviously presaged trouble in the coastal cities of Hue and Danang. But MACV asserted that it also posed a "serious threat" to U.S. troop withdrawals and that a "preemptive offensive" was planned with "limited objectives." Few reporters in Saigon doubted that the jargon was a verbal screen for a direct ARVN assault on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...buildup for the sweep into Laos began 10 days ago with the movement of 20,000 South Vietnamese troops and 9,000 U.S. troops into South Vietnam's northwest corner along the Laotian border...