Word: haiphong
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...often at prices 30% below the world market. But East Germany has also built up its own fleet. Today, its black, red and yellow flag flies over 155 ships. VEB vessels last year carried 6,200,000 tons of cargo to 340 ports, ranging from nearby Hamburg to faraway Haiphong, while two 600-passenger cruise ships carried vacationers to Scandinavia, Scotland and Iceland...
...North Vietnamese logistic net" by destroying or damaging 7,000 trucks, 3,000 railway cars, 5,000 bridges and 5,000 barges and boats. Two-thirds of the North's oil storage capacity, most of its munitions-making facilities and nearly all its bridges outside Hanoi and Haiphong have been hit. Just to repair the damage, 200,000 to 300,000 North Vietnamese have been kept constantly at work...
...they argue that it makes no sense to risk heavy losses on such targets as trucks and supply shacks. An F-4 Phantom costs $2,500,000, they point out, while a Viet Cong hutch may be worth $20 and a pack animal $100. The brass want to hit Haiphong's port, big factories and the Red River Valley dams that supply most of the North's power...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy Kohler, recently named Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that increased bombing carried the risk of killing Soviet technicians now being sent to North Viet Nam in ever greater numbers. To blockade Haiphong harbor-another step favored by the military-might, in his view, result in a military riposte from Russia...
...those who would give the President a blank check and those who make a public spectacle of themselves by protesting more for the sake of protest." He pledges "unqualified and complete support" for the men fighting in Viet Nam, and has suggested economic sanctions against those countries shipping into Haiphong harbor. Like everyone else, he is also for negotiations if and when...