He also pushed for a requirement that all foreign aid shipments be on American ships.
The port is now open to receive aid shipments once demining operations are complete.
But our aid shipments have kept alive hundreds of thousands of people.
Israel has already granted permission for most civilian aircraft and aid shipments to land.
In response, American forces have organized aid shipments to his region and offered to undertake new reconstruction projects.
The Ottoman authority agreed to this eventually, in exchange for about 45% of the aid shipment.
Future aid shipments, it said, "will be only in the form of food and medicine."
North Vietnam received foreign military aid shipments through its ports and rail system.
The aid shipment fed 50,000 people for one month.
Guards' families are also allotted food from the aid shipments.