Word: monsoon
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...country along the coast, 143 north of Saigon, 39 northwest of the capital, and 501 in the Mekong Delta in the south. In all, 65 Americans and 78 South Vietnamese died in the battles. Meanwhile, Ho's homeland was heavily pounded last week by U.S. fighter-bombers. As monsoon clouds cleared for the first time in three weeks, American jets blasted downtown bridges and railyards in both Hanoi and Haiphong for three straight days...
...well aware that he is up against a very different enemy now. Even as his speech was beamed southward by Hanoi, the North Vietnamese homeland felt the full impact of U.S. airpower. The bombing of the North has become so intense in the days before the monsoon hits in full force that the number of prohibited targets in North Viet Nam has been falling almost as fast as the torrents of bombs...
...like a seesaw, took two interlocking directions at once last week. American planes took advantage of the last clear days before the monsoon to wreak unusually heavy damage on North Viet Nam. To the south, the enemy shied away from major actions and, bowing to the superiority of U.S. firepower along the Demilitarized Zone, broke off the lengthy siege of the Marine base at Con Thien. Though Con Thien is not yet home free, its relief was a psychological boost to the entire U.S. effort in Viet...
...Plagued by problems of supply and outgunned by the U.S. response, which daily included at least 5,000 artillery shells and 1,000 tons of bombs dropped from B-52s, the North Vietnamese, at least for the moment, drastically reduced their barrage. Perhaps moving to higher ground to escape monsoon flooding of their emplacements, they lobbed only 40 or 50 rounds of shells a day on the Marines...
...North. In their pre-monsoon onslaught, U.S. flyers hammered relentlessly at North Viet Nam's lines of communication, over which its war supplies are funneled from China and the port of Haiphong to the south. Returning to the normally proscribed 20-mile-wide buffer zone along the Chinese border, U.S. airmen scored direct hits on the previously damaged Lang Son bridge, the major rail link between Hanoi and China. Venturing within one minute's flying time of the Chinese border, U.S. raiders knocked out three previously untouched highway bridges over which the North Vietnamese had been trucking supplies...