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Time to Depart. For weeks, the Viet Cong had been relatively quiet, apparently failing to exploit the chaotic political situation in South Viet Nam. Americans in Saigon thought the Reds were hurting militarily. Perhaps, a little. At the same time, they probably did not want to take a chance of rallying support behind General Nguyen Khanh's regime by pressing major at tacks. At any rate, last week the Viet Cong cut loose again. In a spate of ambushes and fire fights-some within 15 miles of Saigon-they inflicted 403 casualties on government forces while suffering 266 themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: $486 Per Chopper | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...British crown, King Lewanika of Barotseland granted Rhodes a monopoly of the natural resources of his kingdom. As it turned out, the king's domain covered quite a bit of territory, and under charter from Queen Victoria, Rhodes directed his newly formed British South Africa Co. to exploit, explore and settle thousands of square miles of south and central Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Relic of Empire | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Freedom to Exploit...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Noel Day Blasts Barry Goldwater As Hardhearted | 10/8/1964 | See Source »

Although he scored Goldwater's ideal of "total victory" over Communism, he concentrated mainly on the Arizona Senator's domestic policies, and his selective reverence for the Constitution. "Freedom according to Goldwater," he said. "Is freedom of a small group of people to exploit the others...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Noel Day Blasts Barry Goldwater As Hardhearted | 10/8/1964 | See Source »

More important than these two, however, was a third, less noble, reason for the directive; the suspicious, paranoic, militance which propelled the Party. White allies, including Northern lobbyists, were viewed less as assets than as conspirators waiting to exploit the FDP for selfish ends. The Party seemed to prefer testing its friends to using them constructively...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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