Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still able to fight, there was no food. Worse, for the wounded fighting for their lives, there was no water. Next morning a relief battalion set out from Fire Support Base 16, less than two miles away. So dense is Dak To's bamboo jungle that it took more than ten hours to reach the embattled men. When the rescuers finally arrived, the survivors mobbed them for food and water. But the incoming battalion had taken only enough supplies for itself, and had consumed them all on the long march...
Flamethrower Targets. It was to be 50 hours before the Americans got food or water. Some of the wounded undoubtedly died as a result, and because they could not be helilifted out to proper medical treatment. The dead were piled six high and hastily covered with ponchos, arms and legs protruding from the grim mass. So tight was the U.S. perimeter that one soldier had to move bodies to dig himself a trench to sleep in, and another used two fallen buddies to keep himself warm during the bitter cold highlands night...
...moments later and tossed out two of his own grenades, killing two of the Americans and wounding three. At last the Americans managed to work their way down the hill to cut out a landing zone. The wounded were led down in a line and helilifted to hospitals; food, water and ammunition finally began to pour in. The encouraged troopers seized the initiative and once more tried to assault the heights, crawling over fallen trees, their flamethrowers leading the way. But the flamethrowers proved to be perfect targets-one man was incinerated by a hit on his own canister...
...river valley to the southwest and snow-tipped mountains to the north. Last week Pakistan President Ayub Khan came to Mangla to dedicate its new clay and sandstone dam-part of a $2 billion complex that when completed will be the world's largest irrigation network, bringing water to 30 million acres of land and serving the 50 million people who live in the vast Indus River basin...
Promoted by the World Bank and agreed to by India and Pakistan in 1960, the project defines the water rights of the two countries, and will control the seasonal fluctuations of the 1,900-mile Indus and its five tributaries through a system of canals, dikes and dams. The U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, West Germany and New Zealand have committed themselves to supply nearly $1 billion toward the cost...