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Laos' economic plight has been complicated by natural disasters. During the summer planting this year a severe drought caused a shortfall of roughly 100,000 tons of food grain-10% of the hoped-for harvest. When the rains finally came, the Mekong and Sedone rivers deluged 30% to 40% of the rice land in Champassak, Savannakhet and Khammouane provinces...
When not contesting, Mrs. Haley knits pillows to sell at the senior citizens center in Clearwater. She and Bill are also seashore bounty hunters. "We got a couple of old pocketbooks at the Goodwill, and we go out and walk along the beach with metal detectors," she explains. Their harvest has so far brought in coins, watches, fishing knives and a hubcap from a circa 1931 Essex. Says she: "People who say 'I can't find nothing to do' kill...
...artist, not a polemicist; his scabrous ideas are expressed in the elegiac terms of a fable. In Days of Heaven he tells of a migrant worker, Bill (Richard Gere), who travels from Chicago with his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) and his kid sister Linda (Linda Manz) to harvest wheat for an aristocratic Texas farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer's wealth, Bill decides to use the ravishing Abby to bilk the farmer out of his fortune. No sooner does the scheme get going, however, than Abby falls in love...
These days, few individual farmers can afford to own their own combines. The price is edging up to $50,000. Besides, in wheat country, combines are used for only a few days during harvest. So farmers turn to combine cutters, also jeeringly known as "wheaties," who hire themselves out, along with their families and their combines. Small is a custom cutter, one of several thousand men who begin their summer combine run in mid-May, cutting down in Texas, and then follow the rhythm of the ripening wheat up through Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas and Montana...
Moreover, the Vietnamese countryside has not recovered from the ravages of the war that ended in 1975. The country is suffering from a chronic food shortage, with an estimated shortfall in the rice harvest last year of 1.5 million metric tons. Building materials are scarce and there is a shortage of skilled manpower...