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Throughout the country, said a senior official, the U.S. is on "the verge" of a new offensive aimed at "pushing the enemy away from the cities." Once the monsoon lifts around mid-April, he added, "his forces are going to be exposed and he will take a good beating...
...death silenced his oratorical thunder in 1963, the Sooner State's Bob Kerr had no peer among the exalted unofficial overlords of the Senate. When Okla homa sent Fred Roy Harris to sit in Kerr's Senate seat, it was like a zephyr taking over from a monsoon. Or so it was assumed...
Engines Running. The transport pilots take enormous risks to bring supplies into Khe Sanh. The base sits in a valley that is at present enveloped almost constantly by a thick mist that will not lift until the monsoon ends in early April. Pilots must feel their way in for landings with a ceiling of less than 100 ft.-even though Air Force standards call for a minimum of 300 ft. In addition to the mist, they must make their letdown through turbulent air and a tail wind, cope with a sudden updraft before touchdown and land on a runway that...
...There is a growing confidence among the American military that if the attack does come at Khesanh, the 5000 Marines there will be able to hold it off. "The monsoon season's almost over," an American general said, "and the longer they wait the better our chances...
...grown along with the war. Only two years ago, a modest 500 men a month were flown out to Hong Kong and Bangkok for brief vaca tions. This month, some 30,000 will wing off from the chill monsoon rains of the DMZ or the muddy Del ta for a five-day fling to a list of cities that now includes Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Manila, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and, most recently, Sydney.-It is probably something only the world's richest country could afford. To provide it, the Government pays Pan Am $23,500,000 a year...