Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs, with whom he trades revolutionary lore. He comes by it honestly, for Bo is one of the Viet Minh's "old comrades." As a Viet Minh major, he was wounded and captured by the French, who even then were impressed. Born July 9, 1917, in a Mekong Delta town 150 miles from Saigon, Bo's Southern mandarin background makes him an appropriate emissary not only for Hanoi but also for the Viet Cong...
LAST Thursday the mayor of Marks, Mississippi faced national TV cameras with a furrowed brow. In Memphis, The Rev. Ralph Abernathy of SCLC was preparing to lead a contingent of poor people from the place where Martin Luther King was shot to Marks, a very small, very dusty Delta town, on the first leg of the Poor People's Campaign...
...local laundromat still bears a "whites-only" sign, and Marks, a hot dry Delta town, does no better getting along with its colored people than its neighbors...
...Last February, the newly merged company got off to a fast start with an order from American Airlines of 50 subsonic DC-10s capable of carrying up to 343 passengers. But after that, competing Lockheed Aircraft got all the business with its L-1011. Lockheed signed up TWA, Eastern, Delta, Northeast, and a British airplane sales company for a total of 172 planes. McDonnell Douglas, which will not break even until it sells around 100 airbuses, grimly admitted that unless other orders came in, the program would be scrapped. Now there is no danger of that...
...jets, compared with North Korea's 450 fighters, most of which are MIG-15s and MIG-17s, with a sprinkling of MIG-21s. While South Korea awaits a promised squadron of Phantom F-4Cs, the U.S. has rushed 230 of its own fighter-bombers-mostly Phantoms and F106 Delta Darts-to five South Korean bases, expanded its air force personnel in South Korea from 5,000 to 7,000 and established an advance base of the U.S. Fifth Air Force at Osan. The U.S. still has 50,000 Army troops stationed in South Korea...