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...tribal groups as the predominantly Protestant Karens and the hill-dwelling, opium-smoking Shans. While the fighting has nowhere come close to the proportions of the Vietnamese war, any week's reading of Burmese newspapers makes the land seem less than idyllic. Recent examples: "Rebels" have damaged the railway between Mandalay and Lashio. Five armed rebels "who seemed to be Communists" carried off a village chief and shot him. A band of police escorting seven provision-laden elephants was ambushed only seventy miles from Rangoon...
Only one U.S. railroad is state-owned: the 115-mile Rutland Railway, which Vermont bought last year to prevent it from dropping its passenger business. The chiefs of many other passenger lines have long called for federal or state aid, and lately they have gained support from more and more influential politicians...
...sharp January dip in automobile production, down 26% from a year ago. Textile production has fallen 10%, forcing many small firms into merger or bankruptcy. There have been other serious declines, ranging from 5% in metal products to 16% in construction materials. Exports are 8% below their 1964 levels, railway freight tonnage has decreased more than 5%, and the newspaper Le Monde estimates that a million Frenchmen have had their purchasing power reduced by dismissals or short work weeks...
...entirely surrounded by the former French colony of Senegal, and one British governor-general called Gambia "a geographic and economic absurdity." The British, who arrived in Gambia in the 16th century, repeatedly tried to trade it off to France in exchange for better land. It has no railway, no airline, not even an army. It has only one hotel, one airport, one fire engine-and only one cash crop, which is peanuts...
Where? A number of future North Vietnamese targets stand out: Highway 12 to Laos, a newly built guerrilla turnpike; the military-industrial complex of Vinh, where the Hanoi railway ends; a big rail bridge at Tanhhoa, spanning a deep ravine; the Hanoi-Haiphong highway; petroleum storage tanks in Haiphong; the rail line entering North Viet Nam from China at Dongdang. As a heavily populated civilian center of 644,000, Hanoi is unlikely to be hit before the others, although the North Vietnamese do not seem sure of that: one eyewitness saw residents digging trenches in parks and gardens there last...