Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Operation Golden Fleece last fall, he deployed 10,000 marines throughout northern paddyfields to give Viet Nam peasants the most valuable present of all-security to harvest and sell their crops without interference. One result was that the Viet Cong had to boost their 10% "rice tax" on farmers to 60% in unprotected areas, with no rise in their popularity rating. More often, the G.I.'s effort is spontaneous. At Phu Bai, marines organized scrubins for the village toddlers. Army Captain Ronald Rod, before he was killed by a Viet Cong sniper in December, collected enough money and supplies...
That will be both a difficult and an exciting task, for the Philippine Republic is a tough, bustling, colorful and potentially great nation. It consists of some 7,000 islands-a few smoking volcanoes, many somnolent with heat and sleeping sickness. Its 32 million citizens range from headhunters in northern Luzon to transvestite Manila bini boys, but the bulk of them are hungry, hard-scrabbling peasants who live in the barrios of the towns and cities. Some scavenge metal from the firing ranges of U.S. bases; others cap bottles of San Miguel beer in the big stone brewery near Manila...
...sleepy back-country town of 18,000 at the end of a railroad from São Paulo. Today it boasts 80,000 people, and last week construction crews were putting the finishing touches on four 15-story buildings. Belém, at the northern terminus of the road, has developed from a ragged river port into a thriving commercial center of 430,000, shipping jute, pepper and rubber to markets in the south...
...sooner had British Prime Minister Harold Wilson called for a worldwide oil embargo against Rhodesia than Smith retaliated by cutting off all petroleum shipments to his black-ruled northern neighbor. The effect in Zambia was immediate. Gas stations closed. Cars coughed to a stop and were abandoned. A stringent emergency rationing system allowed each car owner less than a gallon a week. To conserve fuel, government offices eliminated the lunch hour, sent their auto-driving employees home in the middle of the afternoon instead...
...Pasternak's poetic imagery, Lean led a camera unit almost to the Arctic Circle, hired Lapland nomads to portray Siberian refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...