Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Isolated Shards. The price came high: some 7,000 South Vietnamese troops deployed in the largest military operation mounted by Saigon since the war began, requiring an airlift that tied up virtually every transport plane in South Viet Nam for days. Though the effort succeeded, and by week's end supplies were rolling daily from Qui Nhon to Pleiku, the magnitude of the effort underscored how thoroughly the Viet Cong have chopped South Viet Nam into isolated shards. Only a fraction of the nation's 4,000 paved miles of road are freely passable; of more than...
With the repeal of the banishment law-caused in part by publicity surrounding his own case-Baldwin was forced to return to his unit in Ankara for transport back to the U.S. and a bad-conduct discharge. Kusadasians argued that Baldwin would be put to an economic hardship if he had to pay his fare from the U.S. back to Turkey, and in letters, telegrams and telephone calls to U.S. officials pleaded that he be allowed to stay. Baldwin, who had found a home in Kusadasi, enthusiastically concurred. Said he: "They never looked down on me because...
...donations of the local Korean community, first in a seaside cottage on Oahu, then, after a severe stroke in 1962, in a Honolulu hospital. There he died last week at the age of 90. His body was flown back to Seoul on board a special U.S. Air Force transport. Wary of possible repercussions among groups still bitter at Rhee's memory, President Chung Hee Park prepared Korea's second highest honor, a "people's funeral," instead of the full-scale state funeral that might have been accorded to a former President...
...Korea: unrestricted U.S. bombing of the North impeded transport, destroyed virtually 100% of industry, 40% of all housing; U.S. pilots downed opposing MIGs at victory ratio of 11 to 1. Viet Nam: selective bombing has destroyed 34 bridges and some oil tanks, but industrial complexes around Hanoi and Haiphong remain untouched; of the few opposing MIGs, five have been shot down in air combat as against the loss of two U.S. jets...
Ozawa, a thinker and tinkerer who designed such World War II bombers as the "Flying Dragon," contends that the world will soon have to adopt radical approaches to surmount the speed limits of conventional land transport. On a test track near Nagoya, he has built a miniature model of his "sonic gliding vehicle," which looks like a needle-nosed submarine. His idea calls for a 627-ft., jet-powered shell that would slide along the tops of vertical columns spaced 300 ft. apart; it would carry 1,000 passengers from city to city at speeds close to that of sound...