Word: monsoon
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...receive extensive aid from Communist China's Mao Tse-tung. Mao, the French said, was training thousands of picked rebel Viet Minh troops in China and was equipping Ho's forces with heavy weapons. The Ho-Mao objective: the Red River delta. The time: after the summer monsoon and before the November rice harvest...
Drenching rains did not prevent Coach Lloyd Jordan from running his squad through its usual outdoor workout yesterday. The only major change in practice routine caused by the local monsoon was the postponement of a scheduled drill on pass defense...
...With the monsoon season waning, Communist-led Viet Minh rebels began to apply rising pressure against scattered French outposts along IndoChina's rugged, 550-mile border with Red China. Four Communist battalions attacked the isolated clay fort at Dongkhe (100 miles north of Hanoi), overpowered its 200 French Foreign Legion defenders in a hand-to-hand fight. They also shelled Thatkhe, ten miles south of Dongkha, while other Communist forces massed near the French-Chinese frontier...
...might have been us." The swift and determined U.S. stand had brought them much encouragement, but later U.S. defeats brought doubt and fear again. Andre Laguerre, head of TIME'S Paris bureau, arrived in Saigon last fortnight, as Indo-China was caught in the grip of the wet monsoon, which had temporarily limited the scale of the civil war. Last week Laguerre cabled...
...last war, West Pointer "Strat" directed the 1944 Tenth Air Force offensive against the Japanese in Burma. At the same time he organized an airlift which supplied Allied ground troops in Burma with an average of 2,000 tons of food and equipment a day even during the monsoon season.. Calm and considerate, West Pointer Stratemeyer has something of the air of a jolly college professor, manages to get the best out of his juniors without raising his voice...