Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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grim, bloody and unremitting war. For the men in the field, the 48 hours of Christmas lull was hardly worth writing home about. Infantrymen and Marines kept up patrols on the ground; Navy and Coast Guard boats maintained the watch on coastal and river traffic; pilots of jets, observation planes and helicopters flew reconnaissance missions north and south of the DMZ separating the two Viet Nams. The Allies counted 122 shooting contacts with the enemy. Most of them were minor, but on Christmas Eve, one bout between Marines in Quang Nam and the Viet Cong lasted for several hours...
...G.I.s' yeoman performance, vital as it was, did nothing to cool the tempers of the striking longshoremen. At issue were 288 jobs at the U.S. port facility named Newport, being built four miles up the Saigon River to handle military shipments and relieve the choking congestion of Saigon port proper. From the beginning, Newport was planned as a wholly U.S.-operated military port, with American soldiers of the 71st Transportation Battalion doing the stevedoring and all the other work. The idea was to minimize pilferage, the chances of sabotage, and the risk of U.S. military equipment's falling...
...rotated the 288 jobs among some 2,000 of its members. And when the temporary, four-month contracts expired, the union decided that Newport was far too good a thing to let go. As the Dock Workers Union's Secretary-General Nguyen Hoang Tan put it: "The Saigon River ports belong to the Vietnamese dockers. It has always been so, under the French and also the Japanese. Why should the Americans be able to change...
...give his question added impact, all 5,000 Saigon stevedores went out on strike. The G.I.s undertook only to offload the necessary military supplies, leaving dozens of ships with civilian goods and USAID cargoes stacking up in the river. To bring pressure on the Army negotiators, the Dock Workers Union summoned all 50,000 union members in all of Saigon's industries to a one-day general sympathy strike. But few responded, and at week's end the pressure was coming from the other side: Premier Ky applied some pressure of his own, asserting that "strikes...
...refuge in Cairo, refuses to rejoin him or even to allow his three children to visit him. Few visitors bother to call on him. An $18 million frigate that he ordered from a British shipyard in 1964 as a private "command ship" was launched last week on the Clyde River with neither name nor ceremony. Unable to afford such extravagances, Ghana's present government, which inherited the ship, is looking for a buyer...