Word: underbrush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet. Separating the enemy looking down on Khe Sanh lie deep ravines and draws, layered with a triple canopy of foliage on teak and mahogany trees as high as 200 feet. In topography, Khe Sanh looks like a smaller version of Dienbienphu, but the terrain and underbrush are far worse for an attacker. The Communists must go downhill through terrible maneuvering grounds, cross the ravines, then climb the plateau on which Khe Sanh sits?all in the face of intensive artillery fire and air attack that the French at Dienbienphu did not have...
...line of G.I.s snakes cautiously through the underbrush. The sudden chatter of a machine gun sends them scrambling for cover, and for several long tense minutes there is a furious exchange of small-arms fire. Then, just as suddenly, all is quiet, and out there in the elephant grass a young recruit lies twisted in the grotesque posture of death. He had been with the company for a month, someone recalls, but sadly, no one can remember his name. Says one G.I.: "He had freckles ... I think...
Ironically, there has been summer rainfall high over the Northwest. But the air temperature has been raised so much by an abnormally warm summer that the rain has evaporated before hitting earth. Lightning generated by these abortive rainstorms has continued to strike, setting fire to dried underbrush and causing an estimated 80% of the Northwest's fires...
There is little prospect of reaching any such agreement in the near future. Rusk pointed out that talks "are now concentrated on clearing the underbrush" and nothing more. In other areas, however, Washington sees more cause for hope. Veteran Sovietologist (and newly confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Moscow) Llewellyn Thompson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Moscow now feels much freer to act than it did just a few months ago. Red China, he reasoned, is in such bad odor with the rest of the Communist world that the Russians no longer cringe whenever Peking accuses them...
...withering under spidery trees, the desperate man plays hide-and-seek with his pursuers. Starving, he eats raw snails, shrubs, serpents. Trapped, he sets fires in his wake, or fights. Finally, days later, as he crawls to the safety of a mission fort, the white man waves toward the underbrush. The warriors' resolute leader (South African Actor Ken Gampu) salutes in return, and both men quit the field with honor...