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...weeks the Bandit's roaring chain saw sliced foot-thick support poles and toppled 35 offensive billboards along U.S. Highway 23. Where motorists once skimmed stirring legends like "Stuckey's Famous Pecans-2 Miles Ahead," they now have only trees and farmland to gaze upon...
...advance was kept to a cautious crawl for several reasons. Southeastern Cambodia is flat farmland; the Laotian panhandle is a tangle of dense, triple-canopy jungle. ARVN troops practically had to rebuild the old French Route 9 as they went, and they stopped frequently to set up protective fire bases and send out patrols for as much as six miles to the north and south to guard their flanks. Their vital link to South Viet Nam's Quang Tri province-a force of some 600 U.S. helicopters-was repeatedly socked in by bad weather...
Settling a Score. In fact, a good many middle-and upper-class Chileans have begun to doubt that claim. Some of Allende's more radical followers have illegally seized some 5,000 houses and apartment units and driven owners off some 750,000 acres of farmland. (The government has legally expropriated nearly 1,800,000 acres.) Allende has asked Congress to pass a law making violent seizures of property a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. But his government has done little or nothing to enforce laws already on the books; in fact, it has ordered...
...90th Chemical Detachment, whether his unit had used Orange since the suspension, Morrison firmly replied: "None whatsoever. I've used nothing but Blue* defoliant." By contrast, Morrison's enlisted men told Ridenhour that Agent Orange has been sprayed since April on hundreds of acres of farmland in the highlands of Quang Ngai province. As evidence, they pointed to the fact that 145 barrels of the chemical were carried on their unit's books, but only 40 were actually on hand. What happened to the missing barrels? "We sprayed a lot of it," said David Church...
...that some obvious possibilities have proved impractical. Transporting manure from feed lots to burial pits or storage bins is expensive and difficult. Burning it only increases air pollution and drying it takes up too much space. A more promising approach is to reduce each animal's excretion. Farmland Industries of Kansas City, Mo., has developed grain-sized plastic tabs that, once eaten by a cow, lodge in one of its stomachs, the rumen. There they take the place of roughage, reducing the animal's need for hay. Such cattle subsequently produce up to 40% less manure than those...