Word: convoying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arsenal. The entire Plaine des Jarres is bulging with Russian armaments and swarming with Vietnamese. The Ilyu-shins, which are lined up 18 deep at Hanoi airport, drone in by the hour, bringing 45 tons of equipment a day. About once a week, a convoy of 50 Gorky trucks rolls in over primitive Route Seven from Vinh in North Viet Nam. The rebels have more than 60 Gorky trucks. 40 Soviet jeeps, about 25 command cars and six Russian armored cars. They have Kalashnikov submachine guns. Simonov carbines. Degtiarev light machine guns, ZPU antiaircraft machine guns, as well as Russian...
...print, out of mind, thought U.S. Postmaster General J. Edward Day of his first and last novel: Bartholf Street, written during World War II when Navy Lieut. Day was on convoy duty and published in 1947. But last week, well aware of Day's new eminence, his old publisher announced a reprinting of Bartholf Street. This was ironic, since Day had been forced to contribute $800 to get the first edition published. In the 13 years since. Day's royalties totaled 40--paid in postage stamps. A sample Bartholf Street scene: ''Marie walked in and closed...
Standing straight as an old Napoleonic musket. France's iron-eyed Navy Captain Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 39, only son of France's iron-willed President, took over command of the convoy ship Le Picard in a ceremony...
...navies. If war should occur, the U.S. Navy's sub hunters will need all the help they can get. During World War II, German U-boats sliced into the shipping lanes, even managed to cut off Brazil's northeast bulge from Rio except by heavy Allied convoy. The new danger is Soviet Russia's fleet of 450 to 500 subs, a considerable number of which have been casing South America's shorelines and harbors. Plenty of these Soviet "goblins," as they are nicknamed, have shown up, and U.S. Navy hunter-killer teams have dumped garbage cans...
...when Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones appointed a Plaquemines sheriff against Perez' wishes, Perez mobilized the able-bodied men of Plaquemines, including the American Legion, set up a flaming roadblock of gasoline-soaked oyster shells in an attempt to turn the appointee back. Frustrated by a convoy bristling with state militiamen, Perez retreated to mid-Mississippi on a ferryboat, resorted thereafter to a volley of lawsuits (15 at one time), finally defeated the Jonesman in a typically casual Delta election...