Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saigon didn't give a damn for us," a Foreign Service officer stationed at the U.S. consulate in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho told TIME Correspondent William Stewart aboard the Blue Ridge. "We were promised Navy choppers, but the only thing we got was a phone call telling us there was an evacuation. Not just Vietnamese were abandoned but Americans too. The embassy was exercising no initiative, no control. We were told, 'We can't worry about Delta employees...
...council of up to 25 employees elected by their peers. It is not done all the time, but management is theoretically required to consult the councils on practically anything likely to affect the company significantly-expansion plans, merger possibilities, closings, changes in pension plans. In 1974, workers of the Delta-Lloyd insurance group succeeded in overriding management's plan to merge with a Dutch firm and chose instead to make a deal with the British Commercial Union Assurance...
Though as many as eight provinces in the Mekong Delta (of a total of 44 provinces in South Viet Nam) had still not surrendered and there was scattered resistance in Cholon, the predominantly Chinese quarter of Saigon, the P.R.G. announced that its conquest was now complete...
...born to a peasant family in Ha Dong province in the North, joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and spent about five years in a French prison before escaping to China in 1944. A year later he took command of Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta and in 1946 was made responsible for the political indoctrination of all Viet Minh troops. Dong is considered the man most likely to succeed the ailing Giap, who has been treated for cancer in Moscow...
...enriched the soil of farms along the Nile. Thus it has been necessary to increase the use of imported chemical fertilizers on farms downstream from the dam. Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta. In addition, they claim that the absence of the organic matter in the silt in the waters at the river's mouth has deprived sardines and shrimp of an adequate food supply. As a result, Egypt's sardine industry, which used to produce 8,000 tons...