Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy craft headed back to the carrier, 70 U.S. Air Force jets from bases at Korat and Ta Khlj in Thailand crisscrossed Hanoi, raining 72 tons of 750-lb. bombs in 25 minutes on North Viet Nam's second biggest petroleum depot (202,000 barrels), 3½ miles northeast of the capital city's center. At about the same time, A-4s from the U.S.S. Constellation blasted a smaller, 48,000-barrel fuel-tank area at Do Son, twelve miles southeast of Haiphong...
...miles south of Pleiku, intended as the opening of a concerted drive to cut Viet Nam in half from the Cambodian border to the South China Sea. His technique was a carbon copy of past successes at the camps of Due Co near Pleiku and Dong Xoai, northeast of Saigon, earlier in the year: to attack an isolated camp and then ambush the South Vietnamese force charging to the camp's rescue...
...University joins the rest of the Northeast and part of Canada in a four-hour blackout, during which the Faculty approves the CEP's Gen Ed program. Master Finley, admitting that he had been "a bit hasty" in judging the proposal, predicts that the old Gen Ed system "will be the tune, and this new business the obligatto," Harvard decides to install emergency generators...
...inauspiciously: registration came two days after the Hurricane of '38 -- "the greatest hurricane which has ever struck Boston," the CRIMSON reported. Not only had the 186 mile per hour winds done $100,000 worth of damage to Elliot House, Winthrop House, and the Yard, but whole chunks of the northeast remained isolated and without transportation. Days passed while students straggled back to Cambridge...
Part of Air America's functions in Laos and Thailand have now been taken over by Continental Airlines, but Air America has stepped up its activities in Thailand, where it ferries supplies and ammunition to remote government outposts in the troublesome northeast. From Thailand, Air America also operates a helicopter rescue service that plucks downed U.S. flyers out of North Viet Nam and whisks them to safety. In South Viet Nam, Air America has become the aerial backbone of both the U.S. AID mission and the Vietnamese rural reconstruction program, ferrying as much as 6.2 million tons of cargo...