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...importance, this alone will not enable the Vietnamese to achieve the difficult task of rebuilding their ravaged nation. After more than three decades of fighting, first against the French and then against the U.S., Vietnam's entire landscape and culture must be reconstructed. Much of the land is still pock-marked by open craters, created by bombs dropped from U.S. planes; other areas on which American planes dropped defoliants will remain barren into the next century. Casualties still occur when unexploded mines in the fields kill unsuspecting farmers. The population of South Vietnam is still dislocated, as a result...
...barricades are seen only fleetingly by most middle-class Americans as they rush by in their cars or commuter trains?doors locked, windows closed, moving fast. But out there is a different world, a place of pock-marked streets, gutted tenements and broken hopes. Affluent people know little about this world, except when despair makes it erupt explosively onto Page One or the 7 o'clock news. Behind its crumbling walls lives a large group of people who are more intractable, more socially alien and more hostile than almost anyone had imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass...
...failed to qualify for the NCAAs on an individual basis, finishing in a tie for ninth with number two man Spence Fitzgibbons at 157. He never found his putting touch on the pock-marked greens that were punctured for areation purposes...
Soweto today is still pock-marked by the burned-out hulks of buildings destroyed in those riots. But Thebehali points out that, shebeens aside, virtually every damaged structure was a symbol of white control: Bantu administration offices, banks, schools, police stations. Useful facilities, like clinics, and privately run cultural centers, such as the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., were purposely spared. The "government claims that the violence and destruction here was mindless," says Thebehali. "But see for yourself what was burned and what wasn't. The kids knew what they were doing...
...malleable gutta percha could be rolled into balls know as gutties, which then hardened. The gutties, however, were prone to duck to earth after leaving the club face until it was realized that older, pock-marked balls had a truer flight. Gutties were then deliberately battered with hammers before...