Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retreat stemmed from his revised estimates of the North Vietnamese buildup in the country. The Pentagon believes that there are now 16 North Vietnamese divisions in South Viet Nam. Apparently the President also decided that ARVN'S strategic position in the northern and Highlands provinces had eroded beyond repair after the successful Communist attack on Ban Me Thuot two weeks ago. For three days the South Vietnamese forces tried hard to repel a cleverly executed Communist tank and infantry assault on the city, which sits astride Route 14, the main inland north-south road. South Vietnamese air force...
...After collecting their food stamps at the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, some of the unemployed stop at nearby vacant lots-to pick wild mustard greens. A laid-off Chrysler senior engineer, James Howard, 44, has become a Mr. Fixit, going round his neighborhood in Detroit to repair furnaces, rehabilitate appliances and install storm windows that he builds. Norman Sanders, 55, an unemployed electrician from Somerville, N.J., found a solution: "My two married sons and I set up a commune. We share taxes, food bills and household expenses. We all get along real good...
...amortization payments on $90 million in outstanding loans. To add to Chisso's troubles, another of its plants was partially destroyed by an explosion in 1973. Company officials last year quietly asked the Japanese government's development bank for a low-interest $13 million loan to repair the factory. But when news of the request became known in January, there was a public outcry...
...Prime Minister Takeo Miki points out that "Chisso wants the loan to pay not for the consequences of pollution but to repair its damaged production system." Then, too, says Labor Leader Kaoru Ohta, if Chisso were to go bankrupt, there would be no compensation for the remaining Minamata victims-nor would there be jobs for the company's 1,500 workers and those of its subcontractors. "PPP is fine with me," Ohta says, "but the government should grant that loan." Even if it does, however, Chisso for a long time to come will have to contend with a fourth...
...order of business, a task which would only be more difficult in the wake of a civilian slaughter. Continuing the aid will guarantee a bloody, protracted struggle for the city, Congress should refuse the aid and begin to work with the Khmer Rouge to reassert Cambodian self-determination and repair the damage of half a decade...