Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of what the South Vietnamese know about military tactics they learned from their American advisers. They learned so well that today ARVN corps commanders flit about the countryside in their personal helicopters, and some unit commanders bounce around in their own high-gloss, jet-black Jeeps. Even the lowliest enlisted man honors the American way of war: never walk when you can hitch a ride in a truck, never hitch in a truck when a Jeep is available, never ride in a Jeep when a helicopter is going your way. These profligate habits cost considerable fuel, as does...
Moving fast to compile this record, Simon has stumbled once or twice. Last month his office announced that 1.5 million bbl. of jet fuel would be taken away from the Pentagon and reallocated to civilian jetliners. Nobody seems to have consulted Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, who protested angrily. The result was a "compromise," under which the Pentagon will keep 600,000 bbl. of its fuel at least for a while. Also, the FEO prompted scare headlines by announcing, in one set of hastily prepared allocation regulations, that gasoline production would be cut 25% below 1972 output, and took...
...companies are on the whole higher than they were a year ago. The latest figures from the American Petroleum Institute show that on Jan. 4 stocks of gasoline and residual oil (used to power factories and electric utility plants) were slightly lower than a year earlier. But inventories of jet fuels were slightly above those of early 1973, and refinery stocks of middle distillates (heating oils and diesel fuel), at 198.5 million bbl., were a startling 22% higher than they were a year earlier. The total for all major products, 488.4 million bbl., was almost 9% above the amount...
...effective. Terrorists travel around Europe as easily as tourists nowadays, and they have already shown that they can obtain missiles. Raiding an apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away. The apartment had been rented by a 23-year-old Arab who carried Lebanese and Jordanian passports. He and four accomplices arrested later in Rome were suspected of planning to attack an El Al jetliner as it flew low near the airport...
...Tanaka's jet landed at Bangkok's airport, there were only about 100 orderly protesters waving signs. Read one: TAKE BUT NEVER GIVE. Another said: SELFISH. For a brief moment, Tanaka dared hope that his agreement to meet with Thailand's powerful student leaders had defused plans for mass demonstrations. But his hopes were short-lived...