Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days of relative quiet, fighting has began again near Sepone on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. U.S. sources reported heavy North Vietnamese artillery and tank attacks at Lolo, a fire support base nine miles southeast of Sepone. One American helicopter was reported shot down, and several others hit. Helicopter crewmen said that they were forced by heavy ground fire to drop supplies while hovering five or six feet above the base...
...Naval Operations, disclosed last week that he has assigned patrol gunships on a trial basis to trail the ships that trail his ships. The Asheville-class craft being tested have only 3-in. guns, which can scarcely harass the Soviet ships, and they ride so poorly that the U.S. crewmen have to strap themselves to their stations with safety belts. Still, the Navy hopes eventually to equip them with surface missiles that could pose a serious threat to the Soviet trailers...
While the 207,000-ton supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were...
...Phantom on a support mission was shot down Saturday over the Plain of Jars in Laos. The two crewmen were rescued, the command reported...
...three years. The railroads have reluctantly offered to hike wages by an average of 37%, following the recommendation of a presidential emergency board. In return, the lines want an increase in productivity and an end to such wasteful featherbedding practices as changing train crews every 100 miles and paying crewmen extra money for operating a walkie-talkie. Many of these work rules compel the ailing lines to carry thousands of unneeded workers at an annual cost of hundreds of millions of dollars...