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...90th Chemical Detachment claim that Orange has been sprayed by other units in the Americal Division as well as their own. The stated reason for spraying the crops-which all belong to Montagnard tribesmen -was that the Army suspects the harvest was being given to the Viet Cong. Knowledgeable observers point out that the traditional ethnic hatred between Montagnards and all other Vietnamese makes it unlikely they would voluntarily supply food to either side...
...resorting to formal religious terminology, he says in effect that each of these humdrum souls is precious and equal in the sight of God and ought to be so treated. This is the j'accuse that he hurls in the face of tyranny. Furthermore, he shows what the harvest of tyranny is: fear, hate, mendacity, incompetence, dullness, an all-embracing corruption...
...from wine -specifically $1.5 billion a year in domestic sales alone. Wine is also one of the country's most bracing exports, at $500 million. This year, after a worrisomely chilly spring, the weather turned ideal, with just the right blend of sun and showers. As the grape harvest neared its end last week, prospects for the wine business glowed. The bumper crop is expected to yield 57 million barrels of wine, up better than 34% from last year...
...swimming pools. Assessments of the size and quality of the grape crop in other wine districts were only slightly less heady. A spokesman for the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, the industry's official group, summed up the quality: "For Bordeaux, it is the sort of harvest that comes along every 25 years, for Côtes du Rhône every 15, for Alsace every twelve, for Burgundy every ten, for the Loire every...
Because of inflation and the tradition of setting prices according to the Institut crop ratings, which are high this year, the rich harvest is unlikely to bring down the price of wine. And the crop will not have much immediate impact on the U.S. market, despite a drop in the size of the California wine crop, which is down 20% from last year. Beaujolais, the first wine to travel, will not arrive in the U.S until next March, and this year's Champagne will not be in American shops before 1974. Still, spokesmen for French vintners grow euphoric when...