Word: cam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After the exhilaration of Manila and Cam Ranh Bay, the last leg of what Lyndon Johnson termed his "momen tous journey" to Asia was bound to be anticlimactic. Still, it had its rewards...
...portable typewriter. He took it along when the correspondents were called to what might have been just another briefing at the U.S. embassy in Manila. Along with 44 other newsmen, Sidey was locked into a room, then whisked aboard a waiting bus for the surprise flight with Johnson to Cam Ranh Bay in South Viet Nam. No one was allowed to leave for supplies, and Sidey's typewriter was one of the few at hand. Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress scored a coup...
...flown to Manila to cover Premier Nguyen Cao Ky at the summit, and wangled permission to interview him on the return trip to Saigon. Not until the plane was in the air did Ky tell Fentress their real destination: Cam Ranh Bay. "We get there an hour ahead of President Johnson," grinned the Premier. Fentress-the only correspondent from the Saigon press corps present-had time to interview Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a Marine general before L.B.J. arrived...
...Texas. The site chosen, above six others originally under consideration, was Cam Ranh Bay, on the grounds that 1) it could be approached from the sea, eliminating possible sniper fire; 2) the nearest fighting was 50 miles away; and 3) the base is precisely what Lyndon Johnson has in mind when he says the facilities now abuilding in Viet Nam will some day be turned to the purposes of peace. One of the world's great natural harbors, it has been converted into a sprawling, 75-sq.-mi. complex whose port facilities already handle as much tonnage as Saigon...
...American units stationed all over the country. He listened to reports on Operation Irving from Air Cav officers in the central swamplands, watched A-4 Skyhawks being catapulted off the deck of the carrier Oriskany, paid brief visits to Danang, Cu Chi and the rapidly building military port of Cam Ranh Bay. But the highlight of his trip was the 3rd Marine Division's forward command post at Dong Ha, where he got an on-the-spot briefing of the northern battle lines. Included in the briefing: a helicopter flight over enemy positions...