Word: mekong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diversionary attacks. Communist raiders occupied a railway station and shelled a munitions factory, a pagoda, the Cambodian navy base on the Mekong and a schoolyard in the city itself. On the horizon, the glow of flames could be seen above the town of Kompong Kantuot, 15 miles from the capital but well within its so-called "defense perimeter...
...make highway travel risky at best. Northwest of Phnom-Penh on Route 5, rice-laden trucks bound for the city are waylaid fairly frequently. The closing of Route 4 spelled an end to the petroleum supplies that had come by truck from Kompong Som. Some fuel comes up the Mekong by tanker, but not enough to prevent shortages...
...have to help with grants, loans and private investment. With $2.5 billion in aid over ten years-far less than the cost of the war-South Viet Nam could grow all the rice that it needs, develop forestry and fertilizer industries, and press along with hydroelectric development on the Mekong River. Though the U.S. withdrawal is spoiling the spoils of war, America's most valuable long-term economic contribution to Asia would be to remove even more troops and let the normal flow of business resume...
...foreign goods at outrageous markups. Bureaucrats collect bribes for dispensing the permits, and the Saigon government gets most of its income from import taxes. The report also contends that large shipments of American rice have reduced Saigon's incentive to fight Viet Cong influence in the rice-rich Mekong Delta...
...officials in Vientiane who argue that on the whole the Pathet Lao have gained from the refugee movement by being freed of a sizeable number of non-productive citizens. There is also fear that the refugees retain loyalty to the Pathet Lao, and pose a potential threat to the Mekong River towns near which they have been placed...