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Bettering the terms of trade will not solve the problems of the poor. Though terms of trade have been worsening for the Third World (six years ago an American jeep cost 14 bags of coffee in South America, today 39), an improvement would serve primarily to fill the coffers of government treasuries and the bank accounts of the domestic exploiters of the poor...
...government the people blamed. It was the Americans. No longer did those benevolent trucks show up loaded with bags of rice stamped "U.S.A.," nor were there the blankets or all those well-armed G.I.s waving and smiling to the children. Two of us got out of a Jeep with a camera and a note pad, looked around and asked a few questions. The Vietnamese used to tolerate the attention of these little inspection trips because they anticipated that, invariably, it would bring them something better. Now they know it will bring them nothing but a few muttered apologies, and they...
...Cambodia, a soldier's family often follows him into the field. Troops wounded in the fighting at Prek Phnou are evacuated by Jeep or helicopter to a receiving hospital set up in the basketball stadium in what was once Sihanouk's Olympic City. Most of the wounded arrived with their wives and sometimes their children. A whole family often cowered silently in a corner of the operating room while surgeons cut a jagged 82-mm. mortar fragment from a soldier's chest...
...winter with a stole acceptance. He is a tall man in his mid-thirties, originally from New Sweden, Maine, who bears an uncanny resemblence in Paul Newman. He enjoys the winter. During the crowded summer season he talks wistfully of the isolation ahead: of being able to drive his Jeep up Route 6 and recognize the inhabitants of every car he passes...
...Aczel says he was promised $3,000 a month for pocket money, which would have put an imperceptible dent in the Fitler estate, said to total at least $2.5 million. The romance began to fizzle, however, when Aczel injured himself while loading a lawnmower onto Ms. Filler's Jeep, and she refused to foot the medical bills. Moreover, says Aczel, "I slatted gelling phone calls. My apartment was broken into. My car was stolen. I think it was people who were jealous of me, people around her who wanted her money...