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...extreme effect on the people, the ecology, and the military conduct of the war. In order to obtain information about the consequences of herbicide use on the people and the land, the American Association for the Advancement of Science commissioned a group of scientists, the Herbicide Assessment Commission (HAC), to go to Vietnam and make such a study...
...areas of North America are more isolated or serene than Mexico's Oaxaca state, astride the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Foreign visitors are few, and they are usually young Americans interested in eating local "magic" mushrooms. Yet for the past few weeks, Oaxaca (pronounced wa-hac-a) has been bustling with unnatural activity. Toting tons of expensive paraphernalia, nearly 800 scientists from 14 countries have descended on the mountainous state. Frightened by the "demon" that the scientists have come to see, superstitious Indian villagers have been busily offering prayers, lighting candles and staging other rituals. Their supplications are designed...
...governing bodies in China, that lower-ranking of ficers at district and county levels are not following orders, are in fact making their own decisions-presumably because they are siding with the peasants The most specific complaints have come from Kweichow province where the provincial revolutionary committee has hac to remind local commanders that the relationship between them was "that between the leaders and the led," thai orders must be "executed in a mode way." China watchers in Hong Kong deduce that similar problems of disobedience probably exist elsewhere in Chim as well...
...HAC plan, dubbed "pass-fail" because of its similarity to the HPC request that students' worst grades not be counted, is based on the following provision: each intercollegiate athletic team can designate, at the start of the season, one game that will not count on its final record, unless the team doesn't give a regular all-out effort...
Further discussion will be needed to determine how "regular, all-out effort" is to be defined within the traditional scoring system. The HAC guidelines include scores greater than 50-0 in football, 10-0 in hockey, and 26-1 in fencing as indicators that a team isn't meeting its requirements and should be charged with a defeat...