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...greater worry was the peasantry. After all the years of struggle, Diem had still not won the remote farmers to the government side. Fully one-fourth of all the villages were in the hands of the Communist guerrillas, and often this was more voluntary than forced. The fact was that hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese, naive and illiterate, thought of the rebels not as Communists but as resistants continuing the nationalist battle first started against the French. To these peasants. "Uncle" Ho Chi Minh is still a hero, and under the influence of Viet Cong propaganda, they have become...
...Moscow could scarcely afford to spend a week away from their jobs. But A.A.U. officials, who also know the pleasures of junkets abroad, proceeded to plan a full-blown four-week tour anyway, with meets in Stuttgart, London and Warsaw, following the Moscow competition. The result: nine men, nearly one-fourth of the 41-man U.S. team, reluctantly refused to make the trip. "The A.A.U. works for the A.A.U. on these trips," growled Olympic Discus Champion Al Oerter, one of the defectors. He spoke from bitter experience. In 1958 the A.A.U. wanted him to go on a similar, month-long...
...nger, the border-hopping escapees from East Germany who flee to the West by the hundreds each week, making a mockery of Communist claims of providing a better life, and sapping the strength of their limping, labor-short country. Since 1945, some 4,000,000 East Germans-almost one-fourth of East Germany's entire present population-have fled to the West. Some have braved the guards, watchdogs and barbed wire to slip directly across the long, 400-mile zonal frontier that separates the two Germanys. But most have chosen the safer route through occupied Berlin, where...
Coming a Cropper? The snowballing revolt has already proved economically crippling. One-fourth of the population of Luanda, Angola's capital city, is unemployed, as are some 16,000 refugees who have streamed into Luanda from the ravaged north. Portugal's $20 million loan to Angola for development is being used to finance the garrisons; there is no foreign investment coming into Angola and no development capital available. Worst of all, next month Angola's $55 million coffee crop, which provides 40% of Angola's national output, comes to harvest. Most of the crop...
...white British prostitutes to get the population under way. In 1808 Sierra Leone formally became a British colony, and rule was gradually pushed inland to embrace the indigenous tribes as well. The British discovered diamonds in Sierra Leone's river beds in 1930, and the nation now supplies one-fourth of the world's diamonds to the great De Beers diamond trust...