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...dense undergrowth gives way to an unnatural clearing of dirty gray sand littered with the half-recognizable detritus of the shattered gunship: broken wheel struts, a bent propeller blade, rusted armor plating, scraps of the fuselage. Resembling patches of smudged snow, remnants of the plane's once white fiber-glass insulating material are scattered everywhere. Earlier, crews of olive-clad Laotian soldiers and Americans in T shirts and grimy Levi's had cut a working area roughly the size of a baseball diamond, first by clearing the dense undergrowth and then by dropping to their hands and knees in shoulder...
...Government classifies as "farms" produce less than $40,000 worth of commodities a year and are run by people who get most of their income from other jobs). But many of the roughly 650,000 full-time farmers who grow $40,000 to $500,000 worth of food or fiber a year are losing money; a fair number may not survive...
...seeds of the trouble were sown, recklessly, in the 1970s. That was a decade of high prosperity in the croplands. Worldwide demand for U.S. grain and fiber boomed. The Government advised farmers to plant fence to fence, and growers happily complied. They could sell all they raised at prices often well above the federal support levels...
...perhaps, export demand shriveled. Exports have become vital, not just to the prosperity but to the survival of many U.S. farms. Under Secretary of Agriculture Daniel Amstutz estimates that, using modern mass- production techniques and breakthroughs promised by biogenetic research, the U.S. could soon grow enough grain and fiber to feed and clothe itself comfortably operating at just half its full crop-growing capacity; the rest could be profitably employed only by selling overseas. But U.S. farm exports, after multiplying more than six times, from $7 billion in 1970 to a peak of $43.8 billion in 1981, fell more than...
...monitoring the whereabouts of locomotives. Southern Pacific, which developed the Sprint long-distance telephone service and sold it in 1983 to GTE for $740 million, is currently developing another advanced communications system. In a venture with Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern, the company is creating a coast-to-coast fiber-optics network called Fibertrak that can simultaneously carry 300,000 voice and computer-data transmissions and will be laid down next to the railroad tracks...