Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phnom-Penh, residents were urged to cut down on their use of petroleum; the city was said to have only a three-day supply of gasoline on hand for private transport. To make matters worse, a fire destroyed one of Phnom-Penh's two electricity generators, blacking out half of the city and stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the midst of scorching 95° heat. If the harassing Communist blockade could not be broken, U.S. officials said, food, fuel and ammunition would have to be brought in by a U.S. airlift...
...point of view, the terms of the Paris agreement on Viet Nam make it extremely important that the Phnom-Penh government be saved from collapse. The danger is that if most of Cambodia should fall to the Communists, the North Vietnamese and their allies would be able to transport military reinforcements to Cambodia by sea, thereby substantially reducing their reliance on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They would be able to 'claim that they were observing the letter of the Viet Nam and Laos cease-fire agreements, even as they built up immense military pressure on South Viet...
...totally dedicated to burning their lives out like roman candles in mad pursuit of the Edge, Carter and Steele have found an economical and princely mode of transport. Riding on stuffed sofas and listening to eight-track-tape rock, they ride from Snoqualmie to Mt. Hood to Mammoth to Squaw Valley with Carter's old skiing buddy Charley Goodrich in the Head ski van, which tends to the needs of Head racers at major events...
...took 19 flights to lift out the 2,500 American servicemen who still remained in the country on the last day. At about 5:20, a chipper North Vietnamese colonel stationed at the rear cargo ramp of a hulking U.S. Air Force C-141 transport presented a bamboo scroll painted with a Hanoi pagoda scene to an embarrassed American sergeant, whom he thought to be the last departing American. Moments later, Army Colonel David Odell, the Tan Son Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne...
...BUSINESSES molded Alliance methods to suit their own ends. Within the AID structure, a group of officials represented business interests in deciding each loan. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1964 required that loans purchase only U.S. products, transport, and consultants' services. The Hickenlooper amendment further required that the President suspend all economic assistance to any country which expropriated a U.S. business...