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...Palm Wine...
September 7--In the middle of the afternoon two villagers hailed me as they were heading off into the forest, and invited me to come along. We We walked to a small clearing where two palm trees had been felled, and they collected the palm wine from gourds that had been under the cut. We sat in the shade and drank the palm wine. One of the men explained to me, half joking, the importance of this drink to village life. It's cheap--25 francs for a groundful. In the morning, the men eat a little manioc, and empty...
Fake Bonds & Palm Readers. Led by U.S. Information Chief Barry ("Zorro") Zorthian, 45, the 450 men of JUSPAO this year will spend $10 million on new tricks and techniques-three times as much money as was spent on psywar a year ago. The mark of Zorro was evident last week in the village of Phung Hiep, a district capital in the Mekong Delta where a South Vietnamese "rural spirit" drama troupe was busy maligning Red China and Ho Chi Minh. In between propaganda skits, the troupe sang classical Vietnamese ballads, and played boogie-woogie...
...ordered up 20,000 counterfeit bonds to be dropped in the territory. In Kien Hoa province, a South Vietnamese captain thought up a unique counter to the groups of women and old men that the Viet Cong were sending into town to protest the war. He ordered all local palm readers to advise their clients to avoid large crowds. Protests quickly dwindled...
...does not interfere with Brussels leadership-a fact that has encouraged the firm to increase its investment at the rate of $20 million a year. The Belgian company still suffers from some political tribulation. In former rebel territory, where ten of its employees were murdered, production of cotton and palm oil has been severely curtailed, and on some plantations has come to a virtual standstill. Half of the production of its diamond mines is stolen. But la Générale is less worried by these facts than by another fear: that the Congo's present inflation...