Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has been the effect of such concentrated bombing? By the evidence of aerial photographs, the physical damage to North Vietnamese industry and transportation has been immense. General Eade judges that "we have very nearly stopped rail traffic from the North." Hanoi has lost 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...
...eroded popular willingness to support the battle in the South-any more than did the bombings of 1965-68. One of the lessons of the Viet Nam War is that a basically agricultural economy such as North Viet Nam's is far more resilient than an industrialized one. Rail lines can be cut, but bombing roads is not so effective. Trucks can always drive around craters, and there has been a marked increase of truck traffic in the North-perhaps at the expense of transportation of supplies to troops in the South. Swedish journalists who have visited North Viet...
...Rohr-Monocab uses six-passenger vehicles suspended on an overhead rail. It can operate at 30 m.p.h. and, like its wheeled competitors, is computer-controlled and on call at all times...
...Otis system uses six-to-ten-passenger Hovair vehicles that float on a cushion of air between them and a trackway. The blast of air that keeps the vehicles suspended is produced by electric engines, but the cars are pulled along by electromagnets that are embedded in a third rail in the track and controlled by a computer...
...past two weeks alone, smart bombs have enabled U.S. flyers to take out a number of heavily defended targets in North Viet Nam with a loss of only six planes. Among the targets: the North Vietnamese air-combat communications center near Hanoi, six bridges on the northwest rail line, five petroleum pumping stations and a number of power stations...