Word: thang
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...Thang Long bridge across the Red River is a strand of spanless girders; a much publicized Soviet highway from Savannakhet, in Laos, to Quang Tri is mostly a dirt track. The only construction projects that have been finished are those that enhance the Soviet image, like the ground satellite stations that allowed direct broadcast of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, or those that have some military application, like a ship-repair facility at Cam Ranh...
...into debacle. Moscow, which has 8,000 advisers scattered through the country, is currently pouring $2.5 million a day into military and civilian aid projects, including a $1.8 billion hydroelectric and irrigation complex in Ha Son Binh (formerly Hoa Binh) province, a thermal power station, and completion of the Thang Long Bridge outside Hanoi, left unfinished by the Chinese withdrawal...
DIED. Ton Due Thang, 91, figurehead President of North Viet Nam after the death of Ho Chi Minn in 1969 and the only man to serve as President since the country's 1976 reunification with South Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Hanoi. The choice of the southern-born "Uncle Ton," a longtime Communist Party faithful, as successor to the legendary Ho was a compromise designed to forestall a power struggle between more influential leaders in the party. While Ton's presidency was largely ceremonial in character, the power of the office is now likely...