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Word: nai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food source. Most of the crop destruction has been in the Central Highlands, where the population is largely Montagnard tribesmen, an ethnic minority in Vietnam. The crop spraying has a catastrophic impact on the Montagnard people; the story that follows tells of the Song Re valley in Quang Nai province, a highland valley Meselson's group looked at closely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Montagnards of Song Re-A Story of Chemical Genocide | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

That was before the spraying. The Montagnards in Quang Nai are members of the Hre tribe, and are animists, believing in the presence of spirits in nature. For the Hre, poisons are particularly powerful evil spirits, and treatment of the land with herbicides is a manifestation of an evil spirit. The land has fallen under a curse, and according to tradition will be abandoned. The homes, crops, and even lives of the Montagnards were destroyed by the Chemical Corps spraying operations, and their folk beliefs intensified the tragedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Montagnards of Song Re-A Story of Chemical Genocide | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

After all, who but Mourad Saber sleeps with one eye open against the militarist, fascist Zionists? Who else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: No Kisses for Achmed Bond | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...only scheduled event at Harvard, Dr. Marjorie Nelson, from the Province Hospital in Quang Nai, is expected to speak on Tuesday evening, Jan. 13. Harvard will send the $3500 collected from last month's peace fast to the hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reading and Examination Periods Drastically Reduce HMC's Events | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

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