Word: monsoon
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...Monsoon rains fall with astonishing force, beginning in the late afternoon, and flooding the streets. In Rangoon, I escaped into the People's Patisserie for tea and was accosted by a gang of exuberant youngsters calling out "Howareyou! Howareyou!" I found Tom at the teashop near our hotel, engaged in polite conversation with several Burmese men. Nightlife is next to nonexistent in Burma, but teatime is really more like Happy Hour, and the teashops fill up with carousing beer drinkers...
...first trip to the Philippines since he visited the islands after reporting on the American evacuation of Saigon in 1975. His assignment: to determine whether the campaign justified Washington's growing concern about Marcos' leadership. Stewart followed the President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand, who is based in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, endured bone-jarring rides on motorcycles and military trucks while keeping up with Aquino and Laurel on campaign stops across the 115,830-sq.-mi. archipelago...
James Wilde, now TIME's Nairobi bureau chief, is haunted most by an experience in March 1965. "I spent 48 hours in a pouring monsoon helping to load the dead of the South Vietnamese 5th Airborne Battalion onto helicopters," Wilde remembers. "There were 453 of them, including six U.S. advisers. All of the corpses were rotten with rain. We were scared; we could feel the Viet Cong watching from a nearby tree line. The stench of death massaged my skin; it took years to wash away...
...counterattack, though they were no match for the opposing Vietnamese troops. The Vietnamese attacks were denounced as "contemptible" by the U.S. and as "cruel and savage" by Thailand, which put its border forces on full alert. As in the past, the offensive is likely to continue until the monsoon returns in late spring. This time, however, the Vietnamese are evidently hoping to end their annual campaign in a far stronger position than in previous years...
DEMOCRATS KNEW it was coming, and they braced themselves for the storm. But when the political monsoon finally blew over, the damage appeared unprecedented. No modern presidental candidate has ever received fewer electoral votes than Walter Mondale did last Tuesday. The number--525 to 13--spoke loudly...