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...antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from combat taxied down on a new 10,000-ft. runway. "When we landed last June," said Colonel William F. Hart of the 35th Engineers Group, "there was one pier here and that's about all. lust look...
...joins Hanna's St. John d'el Rey Mining Co. (which will have 49% control) to the iron-and manganese-ore properties of Brazilian Industrialist Augusto Antunes (51% control). Potentially the world's largest iron-ore company, M.B.R. plans to build a $60 million deep-water pier, an ore yard, a railroad link (and perhaps a pelletizing plant) on Sepetiba Bay, 60 miles south of the traffic-clogged port of Rio de Janeiro; it expects to step up exports from 2,000,000 to 10 million tons a year by 1970. The deal, said Antunes last week...
...Japanese, are available to do the job. But last week the Pentagon was weighing a contract with Vancouver's Alaska Barge & Transport Co. to put its oceangoing tugs and barges to work in Viet Nam waters. And the installation last week of a 300-ft. De Tong pier at Cam Ranh Bay upped South Viet Nam's port capacity 15% at one stroke...
...Royal Thai Army engineers, carving a broad, all-weather military highway-the Bangkok Bypass road-from the Gulf of Siam to the northeast provinces (see map). At the ocean end of the road, the U.S. is building the $11.9 million Sattahip Naval Airbase, replete with jet strips, a deepwater pier, and 70 ammunition bunkers. At the other end stands Camp Friendship, near the town of Korat, where 500 Americans and 850 Thais stand watch over $30 million worth of tanks, Jeeps, armored personnel carriers, and artillery, enough to support a U.S. brigade. The Royal Thai Air Force is soon...
Close Secret. The joint company is building a 10,000-ft. concrete runway and port facilities at Danang, another 10,000-ft. runway, parking aprons and a deep-draft pier at Chu Lai, an airfield extension, a helipad and a storage warehouse at Qui Nhon. At Cam Ranh, where a huge port facility is going up, it is building ammunition depots, anchorages, runways, aprons and taxiways; at Bien Hoa parking areas for planes, storage warehouses and cantonments. It is building a new U.S. embassy in Saigon, is developing an island in the middle of the Saigon River on which...