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...present a good 60 years away from zero population growth [in the U.S.]," Hicks said. By the time that plateau is reached, he added, our population will be about 300 million...
Before the ink was dry on last Wednesday's Laos agreement, B52s were flying over the Boloven Plateau in southern Laos, allegedly to stop Pathet Lao ceasefire violations. There can be no justification for renewed U.S. bombing in Laos...
Explained Frank A. Sieverts, a State Department expert on P.O.W. affairs who talked to the prisoners at Clark Air Base: "After two or three years, the cycle of illness and health stopped alternating and stabilized at a somewhat lower life-supporting plateau." Treatment for injuries was frequently crude -sometimes wounds were lanced with rusty nails. Said one prisoner from the South: "This stuff about not being able to live without sex is nonsense. What I dreamed about was food and medicine...
...home from one of his successful overseas meetings, he heard his staff exulting over the raves. "A President overseas always is a success at first. We'll know better in six months." When people get too despondent around him, Nixon turns it the other way, seeing a high plateau ahead. "None of this will matter," he told one man during the Christmas bombing outcry, "if we succeed and bring peace...
...weather have always bedeviled India's food production. This year the drought that appears every five years with devastating regularity has struck again, sweeping across India from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea and north to the foothills of the Himalayas. Across the vast Deccan Plateau, where 50 million people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough food stocks...