Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Songkhla boat camp in southern Thailand, where nearly 5,000 Vietnamese live on a section of ant-infested beach, people use the privies when the water is high so that the falling tide will lessen the stench. On the island of Bidong, site of Malaysia's largest camp, conditions were considered critical six months ago when the camp's population was 15,000. Today 45,000 people are crowded into 30 acres. French doctors aboard a privately chartered hospital ship stationed offshore have asked Pope John Paul II to visit Bidong, adding: "On this island today beats...
...rage at the departing ships. Incredibly, none of Kennedy's CIA or military advisers had warned him that, faced with disaster, the invaders could not simply slip into the Escambray Mountains and carry on as anti-Castro guerrillas. The mountains were too far away, separated from the landing site by swamps, and the invaders had been given no training in survival tactics...
...Reservation. This is a state park, and one of the easiest beaches to commute to. It's about an hour's ride from Boston down route 3. which is about as far as the aforementioned North Shore beaches. Scusset beach is next to a campground, too, and the site is ideal for overnight affairs. The camping fee is $5 per couple, but the camping lot is nothing more pleasing than a shrubby parking lot. Nice view of an electric power plant across the Cape Cod Canal, though...
Security was tight. If you didn't have one of the laminated photo-identity badges distributed by LILCO, police arrested you (two reporters were taken into custody after their badges were misplaced). Police later said they had received a report that a sniper was planning to hide at the site and pick off protesters. He never showed...
ITHAD BEGUN, Around the perimeter of the main construction site, but mostly from the east where the terrain was easier, groups of "CD people" carried ladders, ropes and blankets (for protection from the barbed wire). "They're everywhere!" a LILCO official reportedly said as he watched them arrive via closed circuit television monitors in the utility's security trailer. They trudged along the fence until they found a nice spot to go over, wished each other and the support--SHAD lawyers, medics, etc.--good luck, then did what they came...