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...mangrove seasonal cycle has become erratic through much of Vietnam and has caused secondary agricultural dislocations. In addition, the U. S. deflation campaign has been plagued with accidents. Thousands of Michelin rubber plantation trees were sprayed and killed north and west of Saigon; the U. S. compensated France $87 per tree. Cambodia is currently suing the United States for $9 million in damages covering an area allegedly sprayed accidentally-700 square kilometers...
...much longer appears to be the question-and the prognosis is dim. The British equivalent of France's Guide Michelin is an annual directory of hotels, inns, restaurants and pubs published for the past 13 years by Travel Critic Egon Ronay, a Hungarian-born ex-hotelier. In the 1970 edition of his Guide, Ronay calls hotel breakfasts, "with notable exceptions, one of the heavier crosses we bear on our inspections." More specifically, the guide's 16 food tasters and bed testers reported "disgusting coffee, cold toast, tinned juices, brought into one's room with the delicacy...
...Fielding does today. For kings and governments may err,/ But never Mr. Baedeker, wrote Poet A. P. Herbert. Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...
That one-star, one-line rating for the Weinhaus Maternus in the Michelin German guidebook is somewhat coy, albeit accurate as far as it goes. The service, as Michelin indicates, is indeed gemütlich and the food good. Eating there is also reasonable: a dinner for two can be had for $12. What the guidebook fails to mention is that Maternus, located in the Bonn suburb of Bad Godesberg* is undoubtedly the most important restaurant in West Germany. Its primary bill of fare is politics, not Sauerbraten, and as the capital's gathering place for party leaders, deputies...
...were barred from the scene. Two ARVN Special Forces battalions were also savaged by enemy attacks 35 miles northeast of Saigon: their casualties were reported as "moderate," a euphemism for fairly substantial losses. The continued enemy pressure around Saigon was underscored by the U.S. sweep in the V.C.-infested Michelin rubber plantation northwest of the capital. After a week of battle, more than 600 enemy troopers were reported killed. To the north, along the Demilitarized Zone, U.S. infantrymen ran across a North Vietnamese force, killing 120 Communist soldiers while taking 14 dead and 30 wounded of their...