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Many former Saigonites have been forcibly turned into farmers. In the new economic zone near Ho Chi Minh City, some 1,700 people, mostly urban exiles, have built the Nhi Xuan (Two Springs) communal fruit farm. "They were unruly when they came here," says Farm Official Nguyen Duy Tong. "We educate them. We teach them to realize the tasks they must do. We can do that. It is the character of our society...
...tests with student volunteers at Madison, Wis., he made a connection between drinking and thrill seeking. While non-T personalities may drink to grow numb, Type Ts drink to shed inhibitions and are prone to act disruptively while under the influence. Says Farley: "It's experimenting with forbidden fruit." He finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become accustomed to the idea that Type A individuals are dangerous to themselves," says Farley, referring to the shorthand...
...unprecedented, access to the Vatican as part of the show's week of live broadcasts from Rome. The Pope extended a personal welcome to the NBC crew at his general audience and expressed his hope that the media exposure in the U.S. during Holy Week would "bear much spiritual fruit." After a semiprivate Mass under Michelangelo's frescoes in the rarely seen Pauline Chapel, the Pope met briefly with Today Hosts Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel, both of whom asked the Pontiff to bless their children. Also present was Pauley's usually camera-shy husband, Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who afterward...
...Leader Robert Michel of Illinois over a tuna-fish sandwich. He lectured House members on the folly of giving away bargaining tools to the Soviets: "As they enjoy the apple that falls from the tree that they did not have to pay for, they quite understandably wonder what other fruit will fall from that tree that they do not have...
...decisive in national policy terms; generally speaking, people in a period of crisis vote against incumbents in this kind of election. That was good for us when we were in opposition. It is different for us now. Also, we have an economic policy that is aimed at bearing fruit in the long term. That obviously is difficult...