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...Kill or Cure. Most ills in Viet Nam, of course, are the fault of the Viet Cong. Outside the capital, the Communists concentrate on cutting supply lines. The railroad to Hue, South Viet Nam's ancient Buddhist center far to the north, has not been used for a year. Route 4, over which most of the rich harvest of the Mekong Delta moves to Saigon, is mined with jolting frequency. The road from mountainous Dalat-source of the capital's vegetables and fruit-can be traversed only by army truck convoys. On back-country roads last week...
Premier Ky has his own kill-or-cure answer. Wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a button-down choler, he flew through the country last week in his purple Aerocommander, counselling the crowds: "Blindfold all the rice merchants, attach them to a pole, and ask them whether or not they agree to lower their prices." The cocky little air force general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price...
...than policies. Paris reacted to the cutting of diplomatic ties with characteristic hauteur, but showed no signs of withdrawing its cultural and economic missions in Saigon. De Gaulle's only reported comment was to inquire loftily: "Qui est Ky?" It will take more than a few executions to cure the corruption that plagues Saigon and most other Asian capitals. Moreover, price controls on rice and other consumer goods do not get to the root of the problem: scarcities caused by Viet Cong control of roads between farming areas and cities...
Stealth & Strategy. In a similar case that reached the Supreme Court in 1958 (Sherman v. U.S.), a narcotics addict "on the cure" sold drugs to an informer only after repeated pleas for help. The court called that entrapment too: "The power of Government is abused and directed to an end for which it was not constituted when employed to promote rather than detect crime and to bring about the downfall of those who, left to themselves, might well have obeyed...
Playing Primavera in an asphalt desert is only part of Mary Lasker's life and work. "I am mainly interested in medical research," she says. "The flowers are just a little thing to keep me from being depressed until a cure is found for diseases like cancer and arteriosclerosis." To help in that pursuit, the Lasker Foundation supports medical research, presents two annual awards of $10,000 each, one for basic research, the other for clinical studies. The foundation also hands out each year three $2,500 awards for outstanding medical reporting in magazines, newspapers, and on television...