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When digging of the Peking-Tientsin canal reached a point a few blocks away from our school we spent our work days with pick and shovel and bamboo carrying-poles. Later, we went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...
...Viet Nam's war against the elusive Communist Viet Cong are often as illusory as the enemy-but there is always a whiff of truth in numbers. Last week it was a faint whiff of success for Saigon's government, compounded of cordite and napalm, corpses and canal water...
...French were able to penetrate it. Managing to lure two Viet Cong battalions out of the forest and into a "hollow square" defense perimeter, government infantry pounced, as "Cobras"-armed U.S. helicopters-moved in with close support. While naval support craft slammed away with cannon from a nearby canal, the helicopters herded Viet Cong prisoners out of paddies like so many sheep. Then in swept U.S. Skyraiders and B-57s, splashing napalm and shrapnel clusters over the enemy emplacement. Gunfire from South Vietnamese Rangers did the rest...
...consulate, carrying a coffin covered with salt. Realizing that the U.S. was vulnerable under international law, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson pressed hard for a solution. Under the new agreement-not a formal treaty -the U.S. will spend $5,000,000 to build a 13-mile drainage canal that will divert the salty water from the Wellton-Mohawk project into the Colorado River at a point safely below the Mexican Dam. If pollution remains dangerously high at the end of five years, the U.S. and Mexico will get together to figure out what else...
...Full Circle he sought to answer his Suez critics by shifting the blame to them. He had been right, Eden insisted, and charged the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles with misleading him into assuming that the U.S. would support the use of force in making Nasser "disgorge" the canal. Facing the Dictators traced Eden government years from election to Parliament in 1923 to his resignation, in 1938, as Foreign Secretary to Neville Chamberlain, whose appeasement policy appalled...