Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destroying or damaging 7,000 trucks, 3,000 railway cars, 5,000 bridges and 5,000 barges and boats. Two-thirds of the North's oil storage capacity, most of its munitions-making facilities and nearly all its bridges outside Hanoi and Haiphong have been hit. Just to repair the damage, 200,000 to 300,000 North Vietnamese have been kept constantly at work...
...progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal officials earmarked $262,000 for "Operation Cool-It," aimed at shifting 50,000 restless youngsters from the sweltering streets to beaches or pools. Unfortunately, Operation Cool-It had to cool...
Even the damage which is apparent now will take at least twenty years to repair -- and much of it cannot be repaired. Estimates of the damage are as high as $170 million...
...Somebody has been out to deliberately destroy the meters," McLaughlin said. "Many have been smashed beyond repair or stripped of money and parts -- last week one was sawed off at the pavement...
...expected to launch new initiatives toward the East, aimed at relaxing tensions with the Soviet Union and at trying to forge new economic and cultural links with East Germany. As a concession to the influential Gaullists among the Christian Democrats, a new government will also probably attempt to repair its bridges with France, a move that would imply considerably more independence...