Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boarded a chopper with a Northeast Command colonel for a lightning supply and inspection visit to a forward company command post in a remote foothills barrio in Isabela province. As the scenery below us quickly changed from the lush lowland rice fields to the forbidding forests and gullies of the Sierra Madre highlands, the pilot climbed to 2,000 feet, respectfully out of range of Thompson submachine guns and AK-47s. Suddenly, when he spotted the tiny H-shaped landing pad, he put the chopper into a tight sinking spiral and landed in the barrio. The supplies were unloaded...
...sympathize with the desire to wish the war hadn't happened. But it did. If only it hadn't been for the war, hundreds of thousands of dead people would still be alive, countless villages would be undestroyed, millions of acres of land would be growing rice instead of breeding mosquitos and malaria in bomb craters. Lyndon Johnson actually did bring four years of destruction to an actual country called Vietnam (as well as killing thousands of American Gl's). Let us mourn Johnson's death no more than we mourn those who suffered and died because of his life...
...North Vietnamese, whatever their personal courage, are clearly having considerable difficulty getting supplies up to forward positions. A recent batch of wounded prisoners taken by the ARVN airborne had not eaten for four days; they cried out for rice more loudly than for medical attention. U.S. Lieut. Colonel Charles C. Pursley...
...they are by their own countrymen, racially identical but better-off Christians who swarmed down from the crowded north after the war in search of land on the Philippines' last frontier. Unaccustomed to the concept of title deeds for land, Moslem peasants were gradually pushed off the best rice fields. Starting in 1969, when the Moslems suddenly found them selves outnumbered by Christians in territory they regarded as their own, they began to fight back with terrorist gangs called Barracudas and Blackshirts. The Christians retaliated with their own gangs, known as llagas (rats...
...MOON LAKE is the most beautiful resort on Taiwan. It is two and one half hours by train from Taipei to Laichung, and then another 90 minutes by bus past the farmers and water buffalo, past the hilly country, with their terraced scars of rice paddies and graves, and into the mountains, to the reservoir that was created by joining two lakes...