Word: monsoon
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...skies, the enemy is tracked by an armada of instrument-laden ships, balloons and buoys, aircraft and weather satellites that feeds intelligence into a support force of computers. But this is a bloodless war. The only object is to study the foe: Asia's mighty monsoon, the great seasonal winds that annually bring life or death to hundreds of millions of people...
...Fishhook region south of Mondolkiri province and a strategic bulge of Cambodia from Cheom Ksan to the Mekong River. They are now fighting for control of Parrot's Beak, where the U.S. invaded in 1970 (see map). Vietnamese troops are massing in Laos, near the Cambodian frontier. When the monsoon ends in October, clearing skies will make air support possible for a major Vietnamese push south from Laos and north from South Viet Nam. If that offensive takes place, most military analysts believe Hanoi could easily take Mondolkiri and Ratanakiri provinces in a drive to dominate all of Cambodia east...
...second half kickoff. Connors's 48-yard gallop highlighting an 80-yard drive that culminated in Miller's second quarterback sneak TD. But the lanky playmaker's run for the extra deuce tell short, and would turn out to be costly in a surprisingly well played (considering the monsoon conditions) affair...
...Great Fall--brought with it Nixon's Revenge. That was when a positively inconsiderate little hurricane named Belle came boiling up out of the Caribbean, hung a sharp left at Cape Hatteras, and barged up the East coast, cancelling countless resignation parties with her homicidal winds and warm monsoon rains. But for those who sat smack in the storm's path, Belle set the stage for a very different sort of party...
...VLCCs were initially built without any experience or any attempt to really understand what was involved in such sizes. There have been improvements, but the fundamental structural problem of the ships is unchanged. For example, a VLCC must be able to steam through a monsoon one week, subantarctic storms off the Cape of Good Hope the next, pass through the tropics, then the Biscay or North Atlantic coast gales. These subject its great length to severe hogging and sagging, with its broad decks constantly subjected to the weight of tremendous quantities of sea water because of the low freeboard...