Word: road
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...little if any" of it comes in by sea. Haiphong is a "convenience rather than a necessity" for imports, and even if all 400 miles of North Vietnamese coast could be interdicted, "North Viet Nam would still be able to import over 8,400 tons a day by road, rail and waterway." McNamara noted that the U.S. had long ago destroyed Haiphong's petroleum off-loading facilities. As a result, Hanoi now unloads petroleum from tankers sitting offshore. Barges float the fuel in by night, and Hanoi has "no evidence of an oil shortage...
...forces won the high ground on the first day, the rest of the campaign would be easy. It was. The next morning the Golani infantrymen met only token resistance as they pushed on to the Lebanese border. From its behind-the-lines stronghold at Kallah, tanks raced along undefended roads toward the Syrian headquarters at El Quneitra. In the central sector, the diversionary probes of the previous day expanded into a full-scale pincer movement that took Aalleiga, a pivotal point in the Syrian second line of defense, and then split into flying columns that sped north to El Quneitra...
...clock in the morning of April 20, three men walked along a narrow mountain road toward Muyupampa, an isolated little farming town in the foot hills of the Bolivian Andes. They all admitted that they were on the way down from a guerrilla camp in the high jungle, although just what they had been doing there remains a matter of some dispute. Word that they were on the way had somehow preceded them to Muyupampa. Detachments of troops and plainclothes national police had moved into town the night before. They arrested the men without a fight...
Hose Down. The Mulligans are not very gregarious. "I don't go on the road much any more," says Gerry. "The marriage is working. Of course, you have to like cats." The cats pretty well preclude inviting people in, though Sandy's recently divorced mother presides over most of the menagerie at the Weston retreat. Sandy doesn't like gadding about, anyway. Still a keen reader, she rips through nearly a book a day, is currently working on English and Russian history...
...uniform of the Washington Senators, during which he went 0 for 3 at the plate. But he had served a 20-year managerial apprenticeship in the minors. The first thing he did was break up the locker-room poker game. Each night on the road, to make sure his Twins got their beauty sleep, he personally tucked them in. When eight players missed his 1:30 a.m. bed check after a night game in New York, he docked them each $100. Relief Pitcher Ron Kline got personal attention of a different sort-get rid of that...