Word: cements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cattle with a pickup truck in Montana"), the corruption of South Vietnamese officials, the squandering of U.S. tax money, the wanton burning of villages, and the deliberate obfuscation of the facts by U.S. Government and military officials. At one point, Ellsberg told how South Vietnamese officials sold U.S. supplied cement on the black market, and made AID-financed schools out of little more than sand and water. "If you took a coin, you could scrape away the wall," he said. Then, after 3½ hours on the stand, an exhausted Ellsberg walked to his defense table, plopped into a chair...
...emphasizes the political implications in similar scenes. He shows us beautiful young women, Untouchables, who carry bowls of cement to a construction site. He sees uneducated and illiterate Brahmins collecting the fruits of their offices as priests. Wisely he refrains from a theoretical explanation of economic and social unequality. Looking across a field of bricks hand-made by laborers paid a few rupees a day he asks, "Need anymore be said about this... Doesn't this explain...
...mouth-I guess to show how tough they were. In one village, they gave a little girl a bayonet and took pictures of her holding it to my throat. Big heroine! When we reached Hoa Lo prison camp [the so-called Hanoi Hilton] they put me on a cement floor, and interrogators told me that I must write a 'confession of crimes against the Vietnamese people.' I refused...
...Sunday in June 1967, a cement mason named Thomas Leonhard called his former wife to arrange a visit that day with his three kids. He had a picnic planned. But neither she nor the children were at their home in Buffalo, N.Y. Leonhard has been trying to find them ever since...
While the center of Shanghai has added not one new building to its skyline, the outskirts have been made over completely. Row upon row of two-and three-story gray cement apartment buildings link the city with the outlying farm land. The apartments built during the past 15 years replace the vast tracts of squatters' huts of the old days...