Word: overruning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paper, huge hunks of Cambodia appear to be under Hanoi's control (see map). The Communist Vietnamese still appeared able to roam almost at will over much of Cambodia. Last week, however, it sometimes seemed as if the place were being overrun by men from Saigon. No fewer than 20 South Vietnamese military men checked into Phnom-Penh's Hotel Royal and set up a sophisticated communications center in Room 30. The red and yellow flag of South Viet Nam flew from the portico of a two-story building where Saigon last month established its first diplomatic mission...
...know how to load it." Some of the younger men had enlisted in the Guard to avoid regular military service and the hazards of Viet Nam. Said the wife of one Guardsman: "My husband is no murderer. He was afraid. He was sure that they were going to be overrun by those kids. He was under orders-that's why he did it. He said...
Lockheed's money difficulties are as large as the aircraft that caused most of them, the C-5A. The company underestimated the expense of building the world's biggest airplane when it eagerly underbid Boeing to get the contract in 1965. Partly because of inflation, overrun costs totaled $1.1 billion. Lockheed's defense woes were compounded by some troubles with its contracts to build the Cheyenne helicopter, the motor for the SRAM (or short-range attack missile) and military ships. The Government has partially reimbursed Lockheed for some of its losses, but all together the four programs...
Sand of Reality. As Lockheed sees it, the fault lies not in its own performance but in a system of Pentagon contracting called Total Package Procurement, or TPP, instituted under former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. TPP was designed to end overrun claims by setting a strict ceiling on the final cost of any project. It penalized contractors who exceeded the ceilings but held out the reward of higher profits to those who reduced production costs. As Lockheed's costs overran the total package price, wrote Chairman Haughton in the company's annual report, "the gold of good intention...
Coup Rumors. In Laos, the question was how far the six battalions of North Vietnamese troops that were probing Laotian defenses around Long Cheng intended to go. Would they overrun the base and keep moving right to the plains just north of Vientiane? A major push seemed several days off at least, but U.S. advisers and government defenders prepared a fallback position at Ban Son, 20 miles south of the base. Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes continued to bomb Communist supply routes across northern Laos. Despite U.S. estimates that the air attacks have inflicted 20% casualties on Communist units, the bombing...