Word: plateauing
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Then, suddenly, the idyll collapsed. The tower walls turned out to be not ivory but papier-maché, and in the winds of controversy they all came tumbling down. By spring, 1962, the Radcliffe girl found herself exposed to public view on a not-entirely-comfortable plateau. The slick-paper magazines had discovered in her a whole new target for cliches. "Beauties with brains!" bellowed Time in surprise (or was it indignation?), but ran a group of pictures which seemed to disprove the contention. Writing in Holiday, a former 'Cliffie reminisced lyrically and tastelessly over the pleasures of the past...
LADAKH (pop. 80,000), Kashmir's northeast bulge, is the sorest of all. A high, arid plateau with a jungle of peaks rising out of it, Ladakh is claimed by both India and Pakistan in their acrid dispute over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger...
...cannot be a participant in the war, only a victim. But even the most isolated tribesmen must choose to which of them he wants to give his allegiance. Typical of the Reds' recruiting and propaganda is one of their recent forays among the Jarai tribe of the central plateau. More than 100 Viet Cong arrived one night, lit a bonfire and assembled the people. "A Communist spoke for 30 or 40 minutes," reported a tribesman. "He spoke Jarai, just like us. He told us that his men would soon be masters of the South, that the French left...
...Government Role. Feared or not, the government seems much farther away than the Reds. On the central plateau, a peasant said that President Diem had been in his district: "Mr. Government went through here once with many soldiers around him, but I couldn't see his face." Yet the absence of the army is most often counted a blessing. When troops arrive, they check identity papers, impose curfews, arrest people suspected of helping the Reds. And when the army opens a local offensive against the guerrillas, who infiltrate everywhere, its fire is bound to be indiscriminate. "I think...
Thousands of farmers have been resettled by the government in the high plateau province of Pleiku. Generally they agree that conditions are better than in their old homes. But a local supervisor says bluntly, "Their rice and cash allotments are being stolen by the regional authorities. The wood they cut is confiscated by officials who sell it and pocket the money. The fertilizer they are supposed to get goes to the black market...