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...bombs. And by the tens of thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then to go aggressively hunting and killing the enemy on their own from the Mekong Delta to the Viet Cong's highland sanctuaries. Phase 3 died aborning, because wherever two or three V.C. companies tried to gather, Allied planes were soon on the scene-and often enough with helilifted Allied troops not far behind...
...plans are being made to dam the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for power and irrigation. Brazil has just completed the $186 million Furnas Dam, South America's largest hydroelectric complex. In a project financed by the U.N. and 20 Western nations, four dams are being thrown across the Mekong River and tributaries in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. As part of the Indus River project, India has built one of the world's highest dams (740 ft.) across the Sutlej River at Bhakra...
...planting the First Team in isolated An Khe, the U.S. has significantly expanded its tactical role in the war Until now, the U.S. has had its hands full simply helping protect the coastal areas and the Mekong Delta where most of the people of South Viet Nam live. Not for nothing is the only adornment on the otherwise bare walls of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's office a population map. It shows plainly that the usual Viet Nam maps showing the areas of Viet Cong control are misleading, for their hegemony is in the least populated part...
...blocking position" between the encircling Communists and the South Vietnamese relief column. With this muscle behind them, the stalled South Vietnamese task force, now moving again, found that Communist resistance was melting away, pushed into Due Co with no trouble. "Hammer & Anvil." In the wet, checkered flats of the Mekong Delta, American airmen and South Vietnamese ground troops combined mobility with killing power in a smooth "hammer and anvil" operation near Can Tho. Four companies of South Vietnamese, acting as the "hammer," drove a battalion of Viet Cong ahead...
Down in the Mekong Delta, the "Tiger Lady" of the 44th Battalion is Commander Le Van Dan's wife. Though the mother of seven, she has the rank of a master sergeant, totes a .45 pistol, often accompanies the battalion in battle-where she has won three medals for combat bravery...