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Massive Sweeps. Cambodia's survival will require many other drastic changes, including the rescue of its stricken economy. Rubber exports, which account for one-fourth of the country's foreign exchange, are down to a trickle, and will soon halt altogether. Rice exports, which account for more than half, are likely to drop by nearly 60%. Still, Cambodia's most immediate needs are military. So far help has come almost entirely from the South Vietnamese. More than 25,000 ARVN regulars remained in Cambodia after the U.S. departure, conducting massive sweeps north, northwest and northeast of Phnom...
Harvard Law School has cut the number of people it will admit to the Class of 1973 by more than one-fourth. Russell A. Simpson, director of Admissions, said yesterday...
...towns and hurtled far beyond the range of their U.S. advisers, artillery and helicopter support. In addition to their impressive mileage, they rolled up some astounding (and probably inflated) body counts. ARVN and the U.S. claimed to have killed close to 10,000 Communists by week's end, one-fourth of the original Viet Cong-North Vietnamese force (v. 524 ARVN and 227 U.S. dead...
...Wolfsburg, east of Hannover, 6,000 Italians make up one-fourth of the work force at the giant Volkswagen plant. They live in spartan company-owned rooms (rent: $10 a month) in a complex known as "the Italian village," grumble about the unfriendliness of German girls and at Christmas time, laden with gifts, pile aboard special trains for the annual visit home...
...building up for 13 months. In early 1969, a shaky coalition government took power in West Bengal, the most turbulent of India's 17 states and the one in which Calcutta lies. Since then, against a backdrop of bitter political strife stirred up by the coalition's strong Communist faction, unrest, violence and crime have been increasing. In the past year, the state has had 584 murders, one-fourth of them in Calcutta. Never the safest place on earth, the teeming metropolis of 8,000,000 has become a city of fear. Aside from the 200,000 ragged...