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...airbase well outside the city because the runway at Hanoi's Gia Lam airport is too short. The area surrounding Hanoi's airfield is leveled, and many bridges are still out. The 30-minute motorcade of curtained black Russian sedans had to cross a plank-covered steel pontoon bridge over the Red River to enter Hanoi...
...about 60% of its meager industrial capacity and most of its electrical power stations. All of the country's rail lines and most of its main bridges have been knocked out. On one day alone last week, American planes flew 340 strikes and damaged ten bridges and a pontoon factory; next day they went back and destroyed another 14 bridges...
...have visited North Viet Nam report that the country has numerous small diesel generators to make up for the loss of power plants. One State Department expert has calculated that there are 22 ways to get supplies across a bridgeless river -from small boats to flotation collars to pontoon bridges...
...Egyptians and Israelis should come to terms on reopening the waterway. The known obstacles, however, are relatively few: the sister passenger steamers Mecca and Ismailia, scuttled on orders of Egypt's late President Nasser at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; part of a pontoon bridge; two small tugs sunk downstream from the city of Ismailia; and the wreckage of a barge twelve miles north of Suez. The Egyptians calculate that they could reopen the 103-mile canal in four to six months at a cost of $40 million. The Israelis believe that the job might well...
Down the Panhandle. Ashmore and Baggs were making their second visit to North Viet Nam. After 14 months, Baggs reported, the North's military and transport equipment had notably improved. Antiaircraft guns pointed skyward in thick clusters, and the often-bombed roads and makeshift pontoon bridges rumbled under a steady flow of new trucks. On the road from Hanoi to Haiphong, Baggs counted 157 trucks, then gave up counting as they kept coming. U.S. reconnaissance shows that many of those trucks are moving at high speed down into the panhandle near the border with South Viet...