Word: monsoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kipling, there is "neither sky, sun, nor horizon. Nothing but a brown-purple haze of heat. It is as though the earth were dying of apoplexy." During this furnace season, millions of Indian villagers lie gasping in their mud huts; wells dry up and fields blow away. When the monsoon rains come in the fall, the torrential downpours drown the arid land in surging floods. Only in the winter months does India appear comfortably livable and nature kind...
...There isn't any," "It doesn't work'' and "It can't be helped." In most years Laotians catch enough fish, grow enough rice and yams and brew enough wine to allow ample time for their festivals. The Bang Fai festival just before the monsoon features the shooting off of giant rockets and noisy fertility processions during which huge phalli are brandished at giggling female spectators...
...cable handed him a week earlier by CBS Correspondent Peter Kalischer. The surest way to get anything resembling an accurate story was to make a flying circuit of the battle area, and that, as TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported (see FOREIGN NEWS), involved a heart-thumping flight through monsoon storm clouds, hairbreadth nighttime landings on muddy air strips marked only by kerosene pots...
...terrorist hove in sight. Company and platoon units, with no radio contact with higher headquarters, were out of touch for days at a time. Often Laos' creaky, eight-plane air force could not get supplies to isolated garrisons, and more than one slightly wounded trooper died at a monsoon-soaked outpost for the lack of a road or airstrip to get him out to a doctor; in all Laos there is not one helicopter. In Samneua-the province in greatest danger of Communist takeover, where an 800-square-mile area is now controlled by Communist rebels-a surrounded paratroop...
General Amkha was not seeking more troops; as the French learned in 1954, orthodox methods of war do not work in the jungles of Samneua province where there are no roads and where the monsoon has turned the few tiny airstrips into quagmires. What he wants is money, medical supplies, food and weapons to give to villagers in the threatened countryside. "We must win people's hearts, arm them, organize them into guerrillas and send them after the Reds. We have a saying in our country: 'When the hand is pierced by a thorn, use a thorn...