Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the sea at 1,000 feet darted the 36 sweptwing F-105 jets armed with rockets and 3,000-lb. bombs. Over North Viet Nam's port city of Haiphong, they were mere minutes from the target: the Uong Bi power plant, newest and most modern in all North Viet Nam, supplying 33% of Haiphong's electricity and 25% of Hanoi's. Low cloud cover and a deadly hail of antiaircraft fire made the mission as hairy as any carried out over the North so far. But down went thousands of rockets and 14 tons...
...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...
...question was what effect the embargo would have on Rhodesia. Rhodesia uses only 280,000 tons a year, virtually all of it piped in from the port of Beira in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to a new refinery at Umtali on the Rhodesian border. Normally, the nation has only a six-week reserve, but there are signs that Ian Smith has been quietly stockpiling a six-month supply. This would not be too hard, for oil supplies only 27% of Rhodesia's energy, primarily for autos and airplanes, with the bulk of its factories, utilities and its trains...
...training for A Thousand Days. A Little Sore. With 1960 approaching, Schlesinger turned once again to the life of action. He has confessed to being "nostalgically for Stevenson, ideologically for Humphrey, and realistically for Kennedy." Fortunately for his future, realism won out. Kennedy, vacationing on the Cape at Hyannis Port, invited him for intimate dinners and sought his counsel. Stevensonians were furious, accused him of being a "turncoat opportunist" who had made "peace with the enemy." His wife announced that she was still for Adlai ("Can't you control your own wife," wrote Bobby Kennedy, "or are you like...
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...