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Despite their modest achievements, most of the conferees viewed the result as a good start toward stabilizing copper's violent price swings, which chiefly reward speculators. "From now on we will have harmony in our policies," beamed Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian Foreign Secretary General. "This conference," added Zambian Foreign Minister Simon Kapwepwe, "should be a lesson to all underdeveloped countries. Those who grow sugar and coffee should start coming together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zambia: Toward Stability for Copper | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...University fullback who now wears the Green Beret of the Special Forces and bosses a pacification program in Viet Nam. They include Negro women like 1st Lieut. Dorothy Harris, 27, a slender, sloe-eyed nurse who was pinned down by a mortar barrage a month after she arrived in Cu Chi last January. Nurse Harris spends much of her time beyond the Cu Chi perimeter, treating disease and malnutrition among the Vietnamese civilians, who often touch her brown skin and cry: "Same! Same!" She will extend her tour of duty by six months when it is up next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Democracy in the Foxhole | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...combination railroad-highway bridge on Highway One leading into Quang Tri. On the same day, Communist demolition frogmen floated explosives under the important Nam O bridge, eight miles northwest of Danang on the road to Quang Tri. The charge dropped a 75-ft. span of the bridge into Cu De river. And to complete the day's work, a fourth bridge, 14 miles southwest of Danang, was dynamited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Province in Trouble | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...boxlike prefabricated units containing kitchen and bathroom. One by one, the units were lowered by a 250-ft. crane through holes cut in the roof and upper floors, and placed inside. Thus, each apartment got a brand-new, modern service core, including a 20-in. gas range, 10-cu.-ft. refrigerator, stainless-steel sink and complete bathroom with tub, shower, porcelain-finished bowl and toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Dropping In, Speeding Up | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Viet Cong. In one early-morning raid, the Communists sent 14 Russian-made 140-mm. rockets slamming into the U.S. airbase at Danang, damaging two planes and injuring 16 troops. Northwest of Saigon, Viet Cong mortars and recoilless rifles opened up on the 25th Infantry Division base at Cu Chi, wounding another seven Americans. Elsewhere around the country, enemy mortar shells and rockets were whistling through the air. Quietly but unmistakably, the quality, quantity and firepower of Viet Cong weapons have risen in recent months until in many cases they constitute a fresh and bothersome threat to U.S. units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Enemy's Weapons | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

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