Word: bu
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...Song, two miles from the Cambodian frontier. Since then the province has been cut off from the rest of the country except by air. Most of the fighting has focused north of Gia Nghia, the dingy province capital. Some 4,000 North Vietnamese are entrenched near by at Bu Prang, an advance outpost lost by the South Vietnamese at a cost of 150 killed and missing...
...Nghia has been stalled to the north of Dak Song. Streams of UH-1 (Huey) helicopters, laden with troops, take off from the provincial capital only to return half an hour later because they cannot penetrate the low clouds and land in the combat zone. The loss of Bu Prang was a bitter blow to ARVN because it lies astride the new infiltration route stitched together by the North Vietnamese since the cease-fire and running from the DMZ along the western rim of South Viet Nam. The military insists that the province will not fall. Others...
...farms are producing such quantities of grain and golden soybeans that equipment dealers cannot get enough storage bins for them. Even though a month of above-normal rainfall slowed the start of the harvest in the grain belt, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts record crops of 5.8 billion bu. of corn (up 4% from last year), 1.6 billion bu. of soybeans (up 24%), 1.7 billion bu. of wheat (up 12%). The department predicts increased harvests of many vegetables and fruits, though in some cases not enough to meet insatiable demand...
Present Wealth. Farmers are reaping some of the highest prices in U.S. history. For example, durum wheat-used in noodles and spaghetti-has sold as high as $9 per bu., almost five times as much as a year earlier. The Department of Agriculture estimates that farmers' overall net income this year will total $25 billion, up more than $5 billion from 1972, which was a year of record prosperity. Exclaims Junaida Dibbet of Sioux Center, Iowa: "I'll tell you how good a year this is! We've been farming for 30 years, and we finally remodeled...
...ROTC poll was "highly publicized" only after it had taken place. Neither faculty nor students knew of the poll in advance. There was no public discussion beforehand of the poll or Silber's arguments in favor of ROTC. The Faculty Senate Council, which, as Bennett says, represents "the entire BU faculty" resolved in April to table any discussion of ROTC until this Fall. Mr. Bennett is correct about the drafting committee, but he is wrong in saying that I charged Silber with complete control over all proceedings. I stand by my description of Silber's other actions, his relation...