Word: depots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much improved military situation in the countryside, there were no festivities. They had been canceled in the wake of a new wave of guerrilla-style attacks on Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. The most dramatic occurred late last month, when sappers struck the city's biggest fuel storage depot, burning 1,750,000 gals, of oil. Two weeks ago five persons were killed, including two Americans, when terrorists tossed two grenades during a U.S. embassy softball game...
...field by concern over the growing U.S. role in Asia, especially Viet Nam; others simply succumbed to the intellectual fascination of Chinese civilization. These scholars regularly visit libraries in Japan and Taiwan; a key overseas source is Hong Kong's Universities Service Center, a foundation-backed depot of re-search documents that also serves as a refugee-interviewing station...
Even as Thieu spoke, 45 American helicopters were flapping into Laos for what he called a "new-type operation": a quick raid by ARVN Hac Bao (Black Panther) commandos about five miles across the border into the Communist depot known as Base Area 611. During their 24 hours on the ground, the Panthers killed just one North Vietnamese and found little in the way of enemy supplies. Their main mission seemed to be to let Hanoi know that its Laotian supply lines would never again be safe and to support Thieu's claim that Lam Son was "still going...
...import foreign crude and residual oil. Clean Fuels wants to build-but not operate -a $150 million oil-desulfurization plant at the head of glorious Penobscot Bay. The proposed site: the little town of Searsport (pop. 1,800), a drab, faded conglomeration of weather-beaten brick buildings, a railroad depot, an oil tank farm and a Purina Dog Chow silo. Though Clean Fuels had previously been turned down by both Riverhead, N.Y., and South Portland, Me., it was in effect invited to Searsport, whose selectmen have already approved the 200,000-barrels-a-day refinery...
...Tchepone, it was expected that Lam Son's troops would exercise an "option" to drive to a key junction ten miles to the southeast. There they were to have sliced up Route 914, an important and still intact trail route; disrupted Base Area 611, a key enemy supply depot; and swept home via the A Shau Valley, a longtime Communist strongpoint. What happened...