Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four countries have raised $175 million, nearly one-third among themselves and the rest in loans and grants from 26 other countries, to finance hydroelectric projects, bridges and engineering studies. The U.S. has spent about $36 million. Thailand has completed two dams, Laos is working on the big Nam Ngum Dam, and Cambodia has begun a power and irrigation project near Pnompenh. Now the most ambitious project of all is ready for financing: the $1 billion Pa Mong Dam between Thailand and Laos. The dam, the first to span the Mekong itself, will generate more electricity than Egypt...
...immediate cause for concern involves the safety of men on the job. Though the North Vietnamese have generally refrained from attacking the workers, some other Communists have been less considerate. Pathet Lao troops shot up a U.S. training camp two miles from the Nam Ngum Dam site in Laos, creating apprehension among Japanese engineers and foremen. A brighter sign is that Communist forces privately promised not to bother the Laotian workmen...
...more serious problem is financing. President Nixon has given the Mekong project less support than Lyndon Johnson did. Washington has shortsightedly refused South Viet Nam's request that the U.S. contribute one-fourth of the money to build a $22 million bridge across the Mekong in the southern delta. U.S. officials contend that security problems and the cost of Vietnamizing the war make bridge-building unrealistic now. They deny any change in policy, saying that Nixon is simply waiting...
...Hart Schaaf, 57, an outspoken and visionary Indiana professor who in ten years as chief executive became known as "Mr. Mekong," was reassigned to Ceylon. U.N. executives felt that the chief should be non-American, particularly if the project is ultimately to draw the support of North Viet Nam. They selected Switzerland's Victor H. Umbricht, head of CIBA Ltd., the drug manufacturer...
...Start of U.S. buildup in Viet Nam...