Word: port
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...move men and supplies. The oil tanks are being dispersed and put underground, and some Western observers in Hanoi say that the North's main problem is that supplies are pouring in so fast from Red China and the Soviet Union that bottlenecks are developing, particularly in the port of Haiphong. Inevitably, there are some shortages, as evidenced by the new slogan for the North Vietnamese militia: "Shoot down more U.S. aircraft with less ammunition...
Tanker Base. Part of a $75 million, U.S.-financed project near the Thai port of Sattahip, the new airfield features an 11,500-ft. runway, the longest and strongest in Southeast Asia. The facility will be home base for 30 giant KC-135 tankers. These circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American...
Sattahip's harbor is being deepened to make it a major ammunition and petroleum port from which a pipeline will pump fuel to Korat airbase in northeast Thailand. The increased logistical flow will supply not only the dozen U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons now operating in Thailand, but also four additional squadrons due to arrive soon, raising the number of U.S. servicemen in Thailand to 30,000 by year's end. As the main funnel for the flow, the Sattahip sea-air complex will require thousands of U.S. personnel...
...Shakhbout had to go. The British obligingly brought in native troops from neighboring sheikdoms, carried the reluctant Shakhbout bodily out of the palace, and flew him to Bahrain in a waiting R.A.F. plane. "Our priorities are many," Zaid said at week's end. "We need a deep-water port, an international airport, hospitals, schools and town planning, plus some parks for the people. From now on, the people will reap the fruits of our prosperity...
Tons of Danger. Sunday was a day of pure surrealist chaos. In Sag Harbor, a onetime whaling port, a fake whale was seen floating in the harbor; 15 pretty nurses lay down on three hospital beds set smack in the middle of the highway. But nothing matched the pandemonium on Montauk's bluffs. There the Montauk Fire Department's hoses and two foam makers were turned loose, sending gallons upon gallons of fire-fighting foam billowing down the cliffs. Joined by hardened surfers, who left their boards to join in the fun, Kaprow, like Moses, led his tribes...