Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delta Gains. In the campaign for Lieutenant Governor, voting was so close between Governor Paul Johnson, 51 (who ran for the No. 2 spot because state law prevents him from succeeding himself), and State Representative Roy Black, 52, that a recount appeared necessary for the runoff against Front Runner Attorney Charley Sullivan, 42. Byron De La Beckwith, still under indictment after two mistrials for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, netted only 34,000 votes. In all, 670,000 of the state's 800,000 eligible voters went to the polls, including nearly...
South Viet Nam's sprawling Mekong Delta is a military planner's nightmare. May-to-October monsoon rains churn the paddyfields into oceans of viscous slop that bogs down troopers and tanks alike. But for all its unpleasant mud, the Delta is far too vital to be ignored. It is the home of one-third of South Viet Nam's 16.5 million people, produces fully one-half of the country's food. It is also infested with Viet Cong. As long as the U.S. has concentrated most of its military muscle in other areas...
Square in the Middle. Primary target was a stretch of Route 4, a potholed two-lane highway over which moves most of the food that the Delta now sends to Saigon. Explained Lieut. General Frederick C. Weyand, the U.S. Area Commander: "For every day the road is closed, the price of rice in Saigon goes up 10 piasters [20]." In the past fortnight, the Viet Cong concentrated three hard-core battalions near Route 4 and mined the road eight times, bringing traffic to a virtual stop. The V.C. were obviously trying to push up food prices just as the presidential...
...streamed toward Saigon. But the traffic was not nearly enough. Twenty-five miles farther south of Route 4 lies another major artery that is still clogged by Viet Cong terrorism. It is the 30-mile Mang Thit-Nicolai canal, which is the main waterway between the ricelands of the Delta and the rest of Viet Nam. Until only a few years ago, it was one of the country's busiest canals; the villages on its banks were among Viet Nam's most prosperous. But while most of the war was confined to the Central Highlands and the borders...
...acquisition of Fort Worth's Central Airlines, a smaller regional carrier that operates in the triangle-shaped area between Denver, Dallas and St. Louis. The combined lines would crisscross 14 Mountain, Midwest and Southwest states, serving a 7,465-mile route system, fourth longest (after United, Eastern and Delta) among U.S. domestic airlines. With the merger, Dymond expects Frontier to become the first of the regionals able to dispense with federal subsidy...