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...past year, they have not been able to prevent the Communists from destroying bridges, blockading key arteries, attacking outposts and terrorizing local officials. Hanoi's forces have come close to cutting South Viet Nam in half at the Central Highlands, and have threatened the precious rice harvest in the Mekong Delta. Saigon reports an average of 80 enemy incidents...
...citizens and of export buyers by using home-produced raw materials. So the U.S. is increasingly at the mercy of inflationary trends in world commodity markets. American inflation has been fanned in recent years by such disparate events as the Arab-Israeli war, a low Soviet grain harvest, copper-industry strikes in Africa and even a change in the ocean currents off Peru (which temporarily wiped out the catch of anchovies, a key source of protein in animal feeds, causing panicky foreign buyers to bid up the price of U.S. soybeans...
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Harvest; dist.Capitol). Space-Rock's Pink Floyd in a hair-raising orbit...
Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...
...cent of the land. A subsistence farmer, who cannot grow enough corn for his family on his one or two acres of land or sell it for a reasonable price in the fluctuating market, must migrate to work on the coffee or cotton plantations--called fincas--at harvest time...