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...cargo ships stood to in Viet Nam's six major ports. Only 40 were being unloaded; the rest lay idly at anchor. Some 40 more are being held up in the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan until the traffic thins. With the U.S. buildup, incoming cargo has increased tenfold in half a year, to 800,000 tons last month-and 60% of it must pass through Saigon. The average wait for a ship to be unloaded is 22 days at Saigon, 31 at Cam Ranh Bay, 40 at Danang-though both Cam Ranh and Danang are rapidly being improved...
...within three years. The Common Market's Six get only 1.5% of their power from the atom, but that output will be trebled by plants now abuilding. France, the Continent's biggest investor in atomic power, intends to increase its generating capacity as much as tenfold by 1970. The Market's nuclear authority, Euratom, predicts that by 1980 the Six will be producing 280 billion kilowatt-hours of nuclear power, or 70% as much as they now get from all power sources...
...facilities. It will need all the dock space the engineers can clear: one measure of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam is that last January only 65,000 tons of military equipment were fed into the nation by sea; during November more than 750,000 tons will arrive-a tenfold increase. Eventually, Cam Ranh's facilities will be able to store 45 days' supply for all the U.S. forces in Central Viet Nam. As much as any single installation in Viet Nam, Cam Ranh is concrete and steel testimony that the U.S. is in Southeast Asia to stay...
...funds. To ease the pain, Keppel sent his men into Dixie to talk to school administrators. He himself discussed ways and means at innumerable conferences, spent countless hours on long-distance telephone lines to persuade the reluctant. By summertime this year, Keppel had hopes that there would be a tenfold increase in the number of Negro children attending integrated classes...
...litany": a 200% increase in both the number and destructive power of U.S. nuclear weapons; a 45% rise in the number of combat-ready Army divisions; a 51% gain in the number of tactical fighter squadrons; a 100% increase in both military airlift capacity and in naval construction; a tenfold jump in the size of special, counterinsurgency forces...