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...protagonists stand out: Jesus Sanchez left his peasant home at an early age, coming to Mexico City, and eventually finding work in a restaurant. At the time of the writing he is 50, still works for the restaurant (in addition to holding several odd jobs), and supports 25 people in three dwellings, two of which are one-room affairs. Jesus is living with one of his three surviving common law wives (he had five, in succession). Immediately impressive is his energy, his strictness, his often fickle generosity. He plays favorites with a vengeance, seemingly contradicting his own heart...
...committed to a three-stage "pacification" program in Viet Nam that calls for 1) anti-guerrilla training and military re-equipment of the Vietnamese army, 2) swift-moving offensive operations against the hard-to-find Viet Cong guerrillas, and 3) reconstruction of the nation's staggering peasant economy...
...party was one of the first to denounce Khrushchev's ideological enemies, the Red Chinese and the Albanians. Not that there is much personal warmth between him and the Kremlin boss. Several years ago, Togliatti routinely began his day by asking his staff: "What new mess has our peasant got us into today...
...Presence. American aid has supplied South Viet Nam with roads, factories, universities, even with an atomic reactor. But very little dribbles down to the peasant, who wants education for his children, medical care, agricultural aid, honest officials and, most of all, protection. On a farm in a coastal region, a mother explained the neglect of her scab-ridden year-old son. "It costs 14? to go to the village and 14? to come back. The doctor charges 70? and then I must buy medicine. We're too poor...
...built highway runs west from Quinhon, but at one village, where the road cuts across a field, the drainage pipe was placed too high. Thus one side of the road is drowned while the other is parched, ruining 24 acres of the village's skimpy fields. The peasants are certain that the Americans would fix the pipe if they knew about it. But how does a peasant reach the Americans? Who would listen...