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...government. Without U.S. assistance, his army, the fourth-largest in the world, will be unable to survive, and his government will soon follow it into well-deserved oblivion. As the Vietnamese return to their homes, the National Liberation Front will be able to continue its land reform program and construct a national state based on popular support which will be free from foreign domination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the NLF | 9/29/1973 | See Source »

What concerns critics is that there is almost no way to construct a golf course in Japan without violating nature. Most of the flat land in the mountainous nation has long since been given over to cities and needed farms; by necessity, many greens have been put on hillsides, where they result in the destruction of forests, blocked streams and erosion. "There's something definitely abnormal about this, a bit of sheer outlandishness," says Chiba prefecture's governor, Taketo Tomono, an occasional golfer. To discourage the building of more courses, Tomono's government has stipulated that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN, INDIA: Golf Pollution | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...Boston council agreed to construct a central market in the city in 1634, but the market was not opened until 100 years later. In 1738, the market building was destroyed, but a new building was constructed, and in 1740 the first Faneuil Hall stall was leased...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: The Boston Haymarket | 8/17/1973 | See Source »

Last week the modest and withdrawn Witteveen, 52, got a job in which he will have need of inner peace: he was appointed managing director of the 125-country International Monetary Fund. That body must construct a new world financial system to replace the one that has been destroyed by dollar devaluations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYECATCHERS: A Mystic at the IMF | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...future park, which will be located between the Business School's soccer field and the New England Depository, will cost $50,000 to construct...

Author: By Douglas Nygren, | Title: Harvard to Lease Idle Land to Poor For Nominal Fee | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

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