Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commander, a lieutenant general, will be able to draw on all the services, including the Marines and the Army's paratroopers, to form units tailored to meet any emergency. They might be as small as a battalion, or as large as several divisions. To transport the force, the U.S. will deploy intercontinental jumbo jets capable of landing on short runways almost anywhere in the world. By 1983 the Navy will have in service the first two of a fleet of 15 new ships especially designed to carry tanks, howitzers and other heavy equipment. Loaded and ready to go, they...
Like most Vietnamese deserters, the soldiers were draftees from South Viet Nam. After receiving rudimentary basic :raining, Privates Tran, 25, Mai, 21, and Van, 24, had been shipped to northwest Cambodia to reinforce the occupying troops. Though Tran and Mai were sent to Cambodia in different units, their transport was identical: U.S.-made C-123 cargo planes, piloted by Soviet airmen. At the military airfield at Siem Reap, Tran spotted from 50 to 70 Soviet maintenance men servicing Soviet planes and U.S. aircraft captured by the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon...
...people. According to some estimates, the 100,000 crack troops that invaded Cambodia have since been reinforced by more than another 100,000 men. In addition, the Vietnamese have trained a vast Cambodia militia. Vietnamese soldiers and Cambodian militiamen are on the move by such strangely disparate modes of transport as elephants, Soviet tanks and American-made personnel carriers, helicopters and planes captured by Hanoi after the U.S. withdrawal...
...bomber aircraft be grounded from the first day of the ceasefire. Carrington assured them that the air force would be monitored effectively by the 1,200 Commonwealth troops who will supervise the cease-fire-about four times as many as the British first envisaged. The U.S. agreed to provide transport aircraft to fly military equipment needed by the supervising forces. (Last week, by an overwhelming 90-to-0 vote, the Senate approved a compromise bill that authorized the Administration to lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe Rhodesia, which have been in effect since 1966, by the earlier of two dates: either...
...industry's $9 billion contribution to the U.S. balance of payments. Until the mid-70s, U.S. planemakers had about 80% of the commercial market in the non-Communist world. But the technological success of the Anglo-French Concorde convinced Europeans that they could become powers in mass-transport aircraft competition. The Airbus consortium of West Germany, France, Britain, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium rolled out the economical A300 and smaller, more advanced A310 models, and lately they have captured 40% of the commercial market...