Word: delta
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Stretching 500 miles southeastward from the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a narrow strait that doglegs around the tiny tip of Oman, the Persian Gulf may be the world's most valuable and vulnerable waterway. At such desert-edge ports as Ras Tanura, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dhahran and Kharg Island, scores of supertankers congregate like wallowing whales to suck up crude oil. Daily they plow through the gulfs warm waters and out through the Strait of Hormuz carrying some 20 million bbl. of oil-almost half of the non-Communist world's consumption...
...itinerary includes Peking, Canton, the Yangtze Delta, and the Northwest or Yenan region, which was the guerrilla base of Mao Tse-tung during the revolution...
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...Includes figures for Northeast Airlines, which Delta acquired in August...
...since Cease-Fire II had been signed, while ARVN losses totaled 218. By the Saigon command's own admission, however, most contacts in recent days have amounted only to mortar and rocket exchanges. What fighting has occurred has been limited to the Chuong Thien province in the Mekong Delta and Kontum in the Central Highlands. In the northerly I Corps area, virtually no combat has been reported. Said a Western diplomat: "The combat statistics show that incidents are only a fifth of what they were after the January ceasefire. There is a far lower threshold of violence...