Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Darlac Province, the lack of planning resulted in heavy losses of livestock, rice, and other valuable possessions in the process of moving to the relocation sites, according to one official who has interviewed the relocated Montagnards. Only a fraction of the water buffalo, cattle and other animals could be brought with the people, because of the hurried moves by truck and U. S. Chinook helicopters. Virtually all the hardwood furniture found in Montagnard long-houses had to be left behind. Cattle and ceremonial gongs were stolen by ARVN troops and later sold in a nearby Vietnamese market town...
...Buon Kli B, with nearly 7000 people - the largest resettlement site in Darlac Province - population pressure and advancing Vietnamese farmers leave the Montagnards with only a fraction of the land required to sustain themselves. Before the move, Vietnamese province officials planned to allot only two-tenths of a hectare to each family. But U. S. social welfare advisers estimate that a minimum of two hectares is needed to sustain a Montagnard family...
UNIVERSITY Health Services is finally showing an awareness of the female fraction of "the Harvard Family." In response to a change in the Massachusetts birth control law and to what Dr. Sholem Postel called "milieu-pressure," gynecological services, sex counseling and abortion referrals are being coordinated and publicized. The move stems from a January 18 meeting between Health Services doctors, President Bunting, Dean Elliot and two Radcliffe resident tutors. No student were present...
...Free World demand [for oil] is expected to increase by some 25 billion barrels per day. That means the industry will have to discover about 40 billion barrels of new oil reserves each year.... Since it is estimated that exploration in the U. S. will provide only a small fraction of these requirements, the majority of these oil reserves must be found elsewhere...
...crop in any one year. However, anti-crop spraying has been largely confined to the food-scarce Central Highlands, the entire population of which is only about one million. Most of these are Montagnards. . . . We believe the anti-crop program may have had a profound impact on a large fraction of the total Montagnard population of South Vietnam and we believe this to be a point for urgent consideration...