Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their Vietnamese client. It was a heyday for alarmists: "I would bet that it won't happen?but we are very much in danger of a third world war. It could be starting at this moment," warned New York Senator Daniel Moynihan. Administration advisers and military strategists were less worried, but no one was prepared to deny that the world's newest war contained the potential for much wider, and even uncontrollable, conflagration...
...inflicted more than 3,000 Chinese casualties, and that in just one coastal battle 50 miles southeast, Vietnamese forces had "trounced three battalions and wiped out 700 Chinese aggressors." In all, Viet Nam announced, its forces had killed 5,000 to 8,000 Chinese in five days, while losing less than half as many. The lopsided claims were remindful of the inflated enemy "body counts" reeled off each day by U.S. briefers during the Viet Nam War. Western sources in Peking estimated that the Vietnamese had suffered the most in the early fighting: 10,000 killed or wounded, compared with...
...Delta. Hanoi had announced that it was willing to trade consumer goods such as electric fans for rice, hoping to induce peasants to sell their crops to the government instead of on the black market. When the government failed to deliver the promised consumer goods, disappointed farmers began producing less. The Vietnamese party newspaper Nhan Dan has complained that many peasants leave paddyfields uncultivated or use rice to distill alcohol or feed pigs...
...south remains relatively more prosperous. Women there still wear the brightly colored ao dai, in contrast to the unisex black pants and white shirt commonly worn in the north. Food is somewhat more available but less affordable, since the inflation rate exceeds 100% a year. In general, the economy of the south has suffered from Hanoi's abolition last year of "bourgeois trade" and the introduction of a uniform currency throughout the country. Southern industry is currently running at 40% of capacity. About one-fifth of the 3 million residents of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) are unemployed. Conceding...
...behind these symptoms of distaste for children, many complicated mechanisms of change are working. It can be both inadequate and misleading to argue that the nation's adults have become less hospitable to children. In their history, Americans have passed through periods of appalling cruelty and stupidity toward children. To the early Calvinists, a child was a lump of pure depravity. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was against the law for children to play. Things were not much better after behavioral psychologists undertook to dictate the treatment of children. Dr. J.B. Watson, an earlier generation's Dr. Spock...