Word: monsoon
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...India, the problem was drought. This year the monsoon rains in some areas were delayed later than at any other time in this century. A heat wave roasted 14 Indian states, killed 800 persons and directly affected another 50 million. The loss in standing crops such as sugar cane and jute was over $400 million, and in several states famine relief measures were introduced to give work and wages to people who would otherwise starve...
...monsoon rains finally arrived in Bombay last week. But in Delhi, where temperatures hovered around 110° F., the people were still waiting for rain, as was much of India's parched northwest...
...camp is filled to four times its capacity; when no more people could possibly be crammed into the 30 dormitory-style buildings, the government set up 150 army tents. The canvas tents have no plumbing, and the floors are bare earth. The tents also leak. Now that the monsoon rains have come, inhabitants have all they can do to keep...
...battalions of marines, Saigon's best troops. The South Vietnamese have admitted to heavy casualties: 4,610 dead and 14,093 wounded. U.S. military men hope that, with unstinting American air support and Nixon's morale-boosting moves, ARVN can hold up at least through May, when monsoon rains are expected to dampen the action in the southern two-thirds of the country...
...desperate move, designed to score a few quick "spectaculars" and win some easy headlines. Last week,jas the Communist drive entered its second month, that early optimism had all but vanished. In Saigon, the U.S. command grimly foresaw "an all-out effort" that could run through the monsoon season that usually begins later this month -possibly on a reduced scale-and then be stepped up well before the U.S. elections and continue on into the new year. Certainly there was no letup in the Communist attacks, which by now were taking on a grimly familiar pattern. Each time the thinly...