Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That incident was one of 8,400 ambushes laid by the Koreans of the Tiger Division since they arrived in Viet Nam last November. Assigned to guard the port of Qui Nhon and open long stretches of Highway 1 and Highway 19, the Tigers have accomplished in eight months what eluded the French and Vietnamese for 20 years: securing the lush and prosperous coastal plain of Binh Dinh province. The Koreans have brought some 170,000 Vietnamese in Binh Dinh under government control, and together with the men of the Korean Blue Dragon Marine Brigade in Phu Yen, have killed...
Because of a tardy monsoon, India's No. 1 port city faced the worst crisis in its history. Usually the annual rains boil up out of the Arabian Sea in June, cross the Indian coastline around Bombay, then move drenchingly inland, reviving thirsty lands and building up water supplies for the coming year. This season, the monsoon arrived on schedule June 10th, but after a few teasing showers in eastern and northern India, the skies suddenly cleared and the sun reemerged, baking the earth and burning off the dwindling water in Bombay's four main reservoirs. By last...
...some areas of the city, black-market water was bringing 24? a bucket. Ships putting into port received only enough water to get them to the next stop. Building construction ground to a complete halt. Other industries were forced to close for a day. City authorities were even discussing the possibility of evacuating many of Bombay's 5,000,000 people to less arid regions of India...
...strike area was two miles northwest of Haiphong (pop. 375,000), North Viet Nam's biggest port and second largest city. First, the leading Phantoms bombed and rocketed the formidable concentration of radar-directed antiaircraft batteries ringing the port's walled oil-storage facilities. While other F-4s prowled overhead and to the north to ward off any attacking MIGs, the Skyhawk attack bombers swooped on their targets. Within eight minutes, they had dropped 19 tons of bombs and 5-in. Zuni rockets on the nation's principal oil-storage complex (capacity 476,000 barrels), its only...
...getting approvals from assorted local councils. Then in May, Fox carpenters set to work making the village even quainter than it was. TV aerials sprouting from gabled roofs were dismantled and a "piped in" system installed. Coca-Cola signs were removed, and because Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is a port, the stream meandering through town was dammed to create an inland...