Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backing Ky, the U.S. in effect was opposing Tri Quang, whose influence in I Corps is paramount. Tri Quang openly accused the U.S. of supplying guns and tanks to Ky to destroy the Buddhists, and last week his mobs responded by burning the USIS library in Hue to the ground. Police and firemen calmly stood by watching. Later, rebel troops were dispatched to guard U.S. installations in Hué-a move hardly calculated to inspire American confidence. At week's end nearly all U.S. civilians were evacuated...
...aircraft from Viet Nam. Air America's total fleet numbers about 150, including little single-engined Helio Couriers and Pilatus Porters, which can land in 250 feet or less, a Super Constellation with peculiar humps on its fuselage, and Huey helicopters. Most of the repairs and ground work are handled by Air America's 9,000 Nationalist Chinese and Philippine employees. The line's 400-odd pilots are nearly all recruited from the U.S. military services, draw an average $18,000 in base pay, plus bonuses for hazardous flying conditions, which can raise the annual total...
...also faces the threat of indefinite Red Chinese intransigence and of fresh guerrilla wars. While a few Americans, particularly on the left, are urging the U.S. to pull out of Viet Nam, others, including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and 15 of his colleagues, suggest that U.S. ground forces in Europe ought to be cut substantially...
Bird Cover. Some of the companies creating Pugetopolis are showing considerable conscience. On its 1,200 acres, Intalco has planted bird cover, posted the lands for hunting, leased ground cheaply to neighboring farmers and, where possible, kept the cherished fruit orchards. Its buildings are painted an inconspicuous earthy green and buff. Near Intalco, at a $50 million refinery, Mobil has built in a system for the bacteriological destruction of poisonous phenols, so that wastes discharged into Georgia Strait are not harmful to sea life. Every year Mobil surveys alternately the health of sea and plant life and the health...
...Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing the world's biggest potential fertilizer market when they see it, American firms are hurrying to get in on the ground floor. Items...