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...capital, evidence of the ten-year war remains starkly apparent across the Vietnamese landscape. Sixty miles north of Saigon in An Loc, now called Binh Long, the twisted debris of Jeeps and armored cars lies rusting in the sun. Bunkers have collapsed. Abandoned shell casings and brittle gas masks litter the barren ground. No other town in the South suffered so severely during the war. In the spring of 1972, when it was encircled by the Viet Cong, at least 1,000 artillery and rocket rounds fell on An Loc every day. Today only a handful of buildings has been...
...from billboards, Iron Eyes Cody, the "Crying Indian," watches with a tear in his eye as unthinking Americans befoul the land of his ancestors. In newspaper ads, children are shown enthusiastically collecting bottles and cans from roadsides, and adults diligently dropping their trash in garbage cans labeled EVERY LITTER BIT HURTS. In front of freshly swept sidewalks, merchants pose proudly with their brooms. And at city hall, officials talk fervently of the need to make their town "a better place in which to live...
...working. So well, in fact, that dozens of American cities have sharply cut their Utter levels in the past few years. In Atlanta alone, where representatives of Keep America Beautiful as well as delegates from 14 foreign countries gathered last week for the 1980 conference of Clean World International, litter has been reduced by 52%. Two smaller Georgia cities have done even better. In Rome (pop. 30,000), litter is down 54% and in Macon (pop. 120,000) a spectacular...
Near Chicago, 850 Glenview, Ill., schoolchildren spent the day planting trees to beautify the town; 200 miles to the southwest, residents of the Springfield area were completing a weeklong "trash-a-thon," aimed at cleaning up the litter along some 90 miles of local roads. Traffic was banned on part of Main Street in Ann Arbor, Mich., where 5,000 Earth Day strollers examined solar water heaters and other exhibits. In Atlanta 300 people devoured a giant 180-lb. Earth Day birthday cake-made, naturally, with no artificial ingredients...
Members of the fraternity said the students tortured and killed the cat because it had failed to use its litter...