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...forward military Marine areas. To the peasants lined up for sick call, the marines hand out food, clothes, toys and soap (donated in 100-ton lots of slightly used bathtub bars by the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains), on occasion have even fed the peasants' livestock and rebuilt their pens. They have built schools and paved over the long-unused Saigon-Hué railroad to make the only road in the Danang area that is passable during the monsoons. Result: for the first time in eleven years, peasants are getting their produce to the Danang market...
...delegates met in the university's Stock Pavilion, a cavernous arena with grey grandstands and an inch of coarse sawdust on the floor. It is usually used for livestock exhibitions, though Wisconsin's old Progressive Party used to convene there occasionally...
...peasant invasions of private land in some states, notably Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, and the government has been forced to use soldiers to drive out the squatters. Díaz Ordaz, faithful to tradition, cannot bring himself to modify the ejido system. But he did promise loans to farmers for livestock, fertilizer and more farm implements...
With the diverse interests of the organization's members-from Maine potato growers to Florida citrus farmers, California orchardists to Wisconsin dairymen, and hog, peanut, cotton, livestock, wheat, rice and corn growers scattered in between-it is a wonder that Shuman is able to make a coherent presentation on anything. Yet surveys by farm magazines show that a majority of the Farm Bureau's members approve of the organization's policies as articulated by Shuman...
...winds has been raking a 1,000-mi. central strip where lowland floods and Andean avalanches have already left 88 dead, scores injured, some 90,000 homeless. On the Andes' eastern slopes in Argentina, more avalanches have killed another 43. In Chile the most crippling losses hit crops, livestock and public property...