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...they will all be technicians, with "safe" jobs. We think some will be technicians, some foot soldiers. In any case, no draftees, whether technicians or infantrymen, will be safe. For people's war, revolutionary guerrilla war, is not like trench warfare. There is no defined front. The whole country, farmland and city, is the battlefield. All the local people are possible enemy fighters. Since there is no defined front, there is no safe rear. This is true for the U.S. army (all of its personnel) in Vietnam. It would certainly be true in China...
With his development scheme, Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Razak is conducting his own Johnson-style "assault on poverty," which among other things has opened 200,000 acres of new farmland to 30,000 settlers. Since its founding in 1963, Malaysia has raised the G.N.P. of its 9.2 million people by an annual average...
...agricultural scientist, the world's exploding population combines with its dwindling food supply to pose a twofold problem: how to increase the crop yield on existing farmland, and how to make use of acreage previously considered uncultivable. In the Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim...
Cities & Country. The independents are booming because the onetime farmland they serve is now becoming suburbanized as homeowners and businesses both spread out from the cities. Under a 1913 compact with the U.S. Attorney General, A. T. & T. agreed to acquire no more independents and to provide connecting service with those that remained; the effect was to concentrate Bell service in cities where telephone demands were bigger. The country was largely left to the independents, who sometimes strung their wire along fences and made the party line famous. Now the independents turn out to have good growth areas and their...
...farmers who sell their groves and pastures to the builders of sprawling suburbs, they simply move to farm land elsewhere and begin again. In California, where farmland prices have shot up 60% since 1957, that process has lately meant that growers from Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, have been bidding up the much lower price of land in the Sacramento Valley 500 miles north...