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...reduced the birth rate from 3.3% to 2.5%, self-sufficiency in food will be achieved this year. Vastly increased grain harvests have been gathered in the Philippines, Ceylon, Turkey and Mexico. In South Vietnam, the IR8 rice strain (TIME, June 14) has been so successful that the Viet Cong have sought to discredit it by telling peasants that it causes cancer and leprosy. Indeed, most developing countries-but not including China, because of its self-imposed, xenophobic political isolationism-are benefiting, or about to benefit, from the new crops and new techniques. By themselves, the new farming methods...
...expect continued stonewalling from its South Vietnamese allies, who are stubbornly engaged in what looks to impatient outsiders like puerile bickering over seating arrangements and furniture design. Nonetheless, the Saigon regime has an immensely important point to make in all the wrangling: that it should not recognize the Viet Cong as an equal, which for the South Vietnamese is the crux of the talks. Unremitting delay is also likely to be the Communists' tactic while they attempt to get the measure of their opponents. Indeed, Hanoi won a modest diplomatic victory last week when neutral Sweden announced that...
Usually after such attacks, Saigon accuses the Viet Cong. This time both police and the government looked elsewhere. A minister of education, especially one in office not quite four months, is an odd target for terrorism. Moreover, examination of fragments showed that the grenade was a U.S. model rather than the Chinese type that the Viet Cong are likely to use. Police soon arrested a discharged South Vietnamese marine sergeant on the basis of what they described as incriminating evidence: a motorbike, notes on Tri's daily routine, and the Toyota's license (EG 0011) written...
Rowe has already volunteered to return to Viet Nam, where, he feels, his intimate knowledge of the Viet Cong should be put to use. To him, he explained, the enemy is no longer "a faceless mass, a group of screaming individuals. Having watched them over an extended period of time, I will be able to think ahead to interpret their actions, in many cases to foresee a lot of things which they might...
Throughout his imprisonment, the Viet Cong tried to persuade him to repudiate the U.S. or, at least, the war. They never overtly threatened his life, he said. Their methods were lectures, propaganda literature and films. Rowe found that their most effective technique -and the one most troubling to him-was to feed a prisoner bits and pieces of news of domestic trouble in the U.S. "All this is designed to create within the prisoner of war a feeling of defeat -the fact that even within the United States the dissension, the disorder is growing to the point that there...