Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Viet Nam? That was clearly the most perplexing question of the week about the war in Viet Nam, where the rival armies remained locked in a bitter, seesaw battle for Quang Tri city. The accusation was serious, since nearly 15 million peasants live in the Red River Delta, whose floodwaters are controlled by a centuries-old, 2,500-mile labyrinth of earthen dikes (TIME, July 31). In the virtual absence of uncontestable firsthand information, however, the shouting of partisans all but drowned out the testimony of witnesses...
...officials have been saying. They have maintained that the dikes were not being "targeted," but have admitted that a few dikes near military targets have been damaged accidentally. At week's end the State Department released the results of a photo-reconnaissance of the entire Red River Delta taken in mid-July. The survey, said the department, revealed bomb craters at only twelve locations in the dike system-ten of them near petroleum storage tanks, and all relatively minor. Insisted State flatly: "The evidence shows conclusively that there has been no intentional bombing of the dikes...
...number of lines, including American, BOAC, TWA, Pan American and Delta, have had to pull engines out of service. Pan Am normally repairs one or two engines a month for second-stage blade malfunctions but so far in July has had to work over twelve engines at New York's Kennedy Airport. Supremely conscientious about safety, Pan Am in some cases has had to transfer passengers to another of its planes or even another airline. Passengers have had to change planes lately in Teheran, Lisbon and Frankfurt...
Economic Stability. More than a million homes have been rebuilt, and all but a hundred or so of the 561 more important bridges in the riverine delta region have been repaired. Jute exports, the prime source of foreign exchange, have also begun to flow from the ports...
...Daily News: Edward C. Norton of The Record. Hackensack, N.J.; J. Michael Ritchey of KERA-TV. Dallas, Tex.; Carl W. Sims, editor of the Bay State Banner, Boston, William Stockton of The Associated Press, Los Angeles: Luther R. West of the State, Colombia, S.C.: Edwin N. Williams of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss.: and Charles R. Wyrick, of Newsday...