Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yugoslavia has a weaker national tradition than Cuba, and in the years preceding its struggle for independence, it wasn't dominated by a single neighbor. Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Russia all took an interest in Yugoslavia's mineral resources and in transporting goods along the Danube River. But after the Second World War the Soviet Union achieved a position of dominance, largely because of the assistance and inspiration it had lent to the Yugoslav Partisans--commanded by Josip Tito, a Croatian Communist--who led the only active resistance to the Nazis. The United States and the other western powers seemed...
...Welcome to Quang Due, the most remote place on earth," says the briefing officer. A quick 40-minute hop from Saigon in a C-130 transport, it is hardly that. But the filmy gray clouds wafting across the silent blue hills and the weathered faces of Montagnard tribesmen staggering along the airstrip with their worldly goods on their backs certainly convey a sense of primitive isolation...
...reopen their taps tomorrow, the world would never again be the same. The sudden shortage of fuel has finally jolted governments into a realization that the era of cheap and ample energy is dead and that people will have to learn to live permanently with less heating, lighting and transport and pay more for each of them. That awareness will force nations to conserve energy and push costly searches for new supplies and technology. Sweeping changes will be made in the way people work, travel and spend their leisure time...
...Israel-and said so. To begin with, Washington was incensed by the fact that Prime Minister Edward Heath declined to let Britain propose an American-initiated cease-fire resolution in the United Nations. When the giant U.S. airlift to Israel began, several European countries pointedly told Washington that American transport planes could neither refuel in their territory, even at American airbases, nor fly over it. Portugal alone cooperated, allowing the U.S. aerial convoy to touch down at Lajes Field in the Azores for refueling...
...Soviets obviously felt otherwise. Both U.S. and Western European intelligence networks picked up signs of Russian military activity: mobilization ordered for two mechanized divisions near the Black Sea and a halt in Soviet military transport flights to Egypt and Syria. The cutoff in the flights carrying military supplies suggested that the giant Soviet planes might have been diverted home for troop movements. Intelligence experts feared that the Russian units might be sent in-at Sadat's urgent request-to help rescue the beleaguered Egyptian Third Army...