Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blood and death. At the railhead city of Dong Dang, a 30-ft. yellow gate marks Japan's invasion of Indochina in 1940, which prompted President Franklin Roosevelt's perhaps apocryphal vow that "we will not go to war over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...
...plant pests has been delayed. Rice production is declining in the once prosperous Mekong 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...
Viet Nam's economic problems were greatly aggravated by the expulsion of 200,000 ethnic Chinese in the past nine months. The Chinese were targeted because of their wide spread involvement in the black market; but they constituted Viet Nam's major entrepreneurial class. They managed the rice trade, the major ports, the distribution systems and several key industries-notably coal...
...added whatever the source of research funding, Harvard often licenses a new invention out to a private corporation for development "in order to get it on the market for the public good...
Cambridge officials said yesterday the Somerville action may affect the Cambridge housing market, but that it will not influence members of the Cambridge City Council, whose approval is necessary to abolish rent control. "Somerville residents will move to adjoining communities," City Councilor David A. While said yesterday...