Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Ship. The marines were shot at once during the landing operation, when a Viet Cong rifleman hit the wing of a C-130 Hercules transport as it approached Danang with a load of marines from camps on Okinawa. But no real damage was done...
Coates agreed to the deal, but the only reward he got was a big scoop in the Times. The holdup victim, Armored Transport, Inc., was "not about to give any additional money to a man who may have already beat them out of $40,000," says Coates. But a good reporter is not easily put off a juicy crime story. Last week Coates was doggedly tracking down a lead to Ruiz' brother Henry, an alleged member of the holdup gang. He has high hopes of engineering still one more sentimental surrender...
...Asked Congress for 520 million in the 1965-66 fiscal year, with which to start research and development on Johnson's dream of a revolutionary ground-transport system, including high-speed electric trains between Washington, New York and Boston...
...Vietnamese interests are by no means identical." Besides, there are "insuperable logistic difficulties." The distance from the Chinese to the South Vietnamese border is 650 miles, and the route lies over rugged terrain through a narrow coastal strip that can be easily attacked from sea or air. Moreover, Chinese transport remains as shoddy as it was during the Korean War. Whenever Chinese troops moved more than 450 miles beyond their supply lines at the Yalu, they bogged down...
...second important, and presently cloudy, issue concerns the fares the HSA charges. The International Air Transport Association requires that prospective passengers be given estimates of expected costs and that detailed financial statements be issued after every flight. Whether or not the HSA believes itself exempt from these regulations--and it certainly should explain its position--it has an obligation to the community to furnish the information...