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...strategy called for physical removal of the rural population from the countryside, the guerrillas' "fish-in-water" base. People were warned by leaflets or loudspeakers to leave; all those remaining were presumed to be enemies and subject to attack in "free-fire" zones. Air raids, artillery shelling and chemical crop destruction ensued. There followed search-and-destroy infantry sweeps, including gunship bombing and "Zippo" burning of villages from which troops had received sniper fire...
Official lies are nothing new in this war, but the current crop have a special significance. For the Laos invasion was the first real test of Nixon's Vietnamization strategy, and any admission in Washington that the South Vietnamese troops were utterly unequal to the "enemy," which they were, would be an admission of the bankruptcy of the entire Nixon strategy...
...cook the grains in the milk." Treated with a minimum of sentimentalizing (less and less in the later books, which are progressively directed toward slightly older readers), the Ingallses' frontier life comes through as an intermittently brutal testing process. Scarlet fever blinds Sister Mary: blackbirds eat the corn crop: the family is snowbound for months and nearly starves (The Long Winter...
Given a combination of abundant rain, warm sunshine and winds in April, the Southern corn leaf blight that reduced last year's corn harvest in the U.S. by 10% could devastate the 1971 crop by as much as 50%. Already salesmen in the nation's corn belt are bootlegging blight-resistant seed at high prices...
Agronomists have managed to calculate and predict crop disasters, but when it comes to urban blights, no one has devised a coherent method for measuring them, let alone overcoming them. Poverty, crime, narcotics, pollution and sheer physical decay are the new locusts, as terrifyingly confusing as Egypt's plagues...