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...admitted authorizing half a million sorties over Laos since 1964. The major effort of these combat missions, according to Branfman, has been to depopulate sectors controlled by the Pathet Lao. Branfman described three antipersonnel weapons now being used by the U.S. military in this effort--the "pineapple," the "guava," and the flachette...
...private conversations, Schoenman presents another face. He modulates his voice carefully, ticking off the effects of U.S. anti-personnel weapons in a professorial, almost bored tone: "the guava bomb ... steel slivers, each one kills at 150 yards. The fields are pockmarked." Speaking from a profile position, Schoenman attempts to mesmerize the listener. He turns his hands over gracefully, or twists his head slightly to emphasize a point. Only furtive glances from his dark eyes to assess the impression he is making jar the effect...
Latin American infants, for instance, eat Gerber passion fruit and guava...
Actually, besides germs in water and food, doctors indict other villains, including the oil used in cooking, hot seasonings, even climate, altitude and just plain overeating. Mexicans, among whom dysentery is endemic, use such home-grown remedies as guava juice and seeds, guava-leaf tea, cactus pear seeds. Medically more accepted remedies: bismuth and paregoric, or in well-diagnosed cases under a doctor's care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result...
...wandered to Mexico. Last year both did frescoes for the Michoacan State capital in Morelia. A faster worker than her sister, Marion last week started on her third wall. Her peasants, a little looser in the joints than Grace's, bring to market bags of papaya, cashew fruit, guava, yams, cabbages, carrots and bananas. Among Fruits & Vegetables Marion includes a few fish and a great deal of sugar cane, bundled like the Fascist emblem. On Marion's second wall the peasants who go to the Abelardo Rodriguez Market can see themselves being swindled by the merchants...