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...dispute between Montagnards and Mrs. Nguyen Ky over claims to 3,700 acres in another Central Highland province was reported by A. P. in January. Mrs. Ky says the land is "public domain" while the Montagnards argue they should regain the land after it is retaken from the Viet Cong...
Before setting out on a pub crawl through Belfast with two young friends from Scotland's Royal Highland Fusiliers, Dougald McCaughy, 23, dutifully telephoned his aunt in Glasgow. "Is everything quiet?" she asked anxiously. He laughed. "Are you kidding?" Three hours later Dougald's aunt received another call from Belfast. On a narrow roadway on Squires Hill, four miles west of Ulster's capital, a pair of schoolboys had found the bodies of Dougald and his two friends, brothers Joseph, 18, and John McCaig, 17. The corpses were heaped grotesquely on top of one another...
...herbicides in Vietnam to destroy crops has the secondary effect of creating refugees-displacing the people whose lives depended on the crops as a food source. Most of the crop destruction has been in the Central Highlands, where the population is largely Montagnard tribesmen, an ethnic minority in Vietnam. The crop spraying has a catastrophic impact on the Montagnard people; the story that follows tells of the Song Re valley in Quang Nai province, a highland valley Meselson's group looked at closely...
...throughout the target area. The spraying covered approximately 1000 acres, and within this region the HAC found more than 900 dwellings, enough for approximately 5,000 people. These dwellings were built in typical Montagnard style. The population density, then, was 180 persons per square kilometer, a high density for highland Vietnam...
...graceful love ballad, I Need You to Turn To, John plays the harpsichord with a delicate touch that creates just the right pinch of pink-cheeked, Highland-flavored romance. Songs like My Father's Gun and Talking Old Soldiers show the clear influence of The Band in their concern, respectively, for the history of the old American South and the ever-present pain of growing old. It is an influence freely and proudly conceded by the composers. One thing most of the songs have in common is a relentless rhythmic build-up from a quiet beginning. Burn Down...