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...trucks barreling between the town and the fields rarely stop when they hit a pedestrian. About one pedestrian is killed each night, often a bewildered campesino still unable to grasp the rapid changes. Whores flash their gold-toothed smiles while cruising the wide boulevards, which have been newly rebuilt with pink paving stone. Rifle-toting policemen patrol the downtown banking area because, as one shopkeeper laments, "this is the season of the rateros [thieves], and they know this is a money town now." The better bars echo with the accents of Texas and Oklahoma, since Americans have been quietly allowed...
Forgetting the last war and pretending that Vietnam does not exist cannot lessen U.S. responsibility for the devastation it wrought there. The U.S. has a moral duty and sound pragmatic reasons for participating in the development of an economically rebuilt Vietnam. After all, the U.S. very nearly succeeded in simulating lunar conditions in Vietnam. Carter claimed last year that "the destruction was mutual (and that) we ought not to assume the status of culpability." This position is patently absurd in light of the destruction inflicted on both North and South...
...crew of 1,000, it makes Versailles look like a nouveau riche country mansion. In the hills northwest of the city is the Summer Palace, which was largely destroyed hi 1860 by Britain's Lord Elgin, son of the seigneur who took the marbles from the Parthenon. Rebuilt hi 1888 by the dotty Dowager Empress Tz'u Hsi, diverting funds allotted for naval construction, the imperial plaisanterie occupies 700 acres and attracts huge numbers of Chinese rubbernecks. And then there are the Ming Tombs and, a few hours away, the Great Wall. Otherwise the city is nondescript...
...Before Conrail's creation, the New Haven division of Penn Central was a shambles. Now, after large contributions for new equipment by New York State, Conrail operates the line with a good on-schedule record. Throughout the sprawling system, the roadbed, key to a smooth ride, is being rebuilt. By year's end Conrail will have installed 13.9 million crossties and laid 2,787 miles of continuous welded rails. It also will have acquired 392 new locomotives and 5,900 new freight cars, paid for entirely by private financing...
...million renovation of Watson Rink, Reardon estimates, should be completed by April 1979; and although the rebuilt facility was an alternative to a more expensive new rink that was originally planned, Reardon is pleased with the renovation...