Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tran Van Dai, 18, lost an eye during his few brief months of fighting in Laos. A rice farmer's son, he was drafted out of a small North Vietnamese hamlet about two years ago, even though he was so frail that he was allowed to carry only 80 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, rather than the usual 200. After hurried training-eight weeks instead of the usual six months-he was marched south and told that he was going to fight in a "great war." Last April his unit crossed into Laos on Route...
...production itself is emasculated. Brecht intended to show the interchangeability of the human war machine's parts, the disquieting ease with which Galy Gay is dissolved and re-assembled. Galy Gay's conversion into the assertive war machine. Jeratah Jip, is hinted at by Galy's request for more rice--but, at curtain fall that hasn't even become a demand. The declarative introduction to the production's last scene tells us to expect the fall of one power and the rise of the new, but the play stops dead without fulfilling its prediction...
...than for their resolutions. In fact, there was even some grumbling this year about the menu at the usually lavish annual banquet. Instead of feasting upon healthy portions of some exquisite gourmet's delight, delegates were served a spare repas of turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes, green peas and rice pudding. There wasn't even a salad, because SCLC supports the boycott on lettuce. The reason for both the thin menu and much of the general restlessness at the convention is the same: SCLC is broke...
Most of the 150,000 Montagnards who remain in resettlement camps are forced to live chiefly on meager handouts of rice. At the Nguyen Hue camp in central Kontum, one refugee told TIME Correspondent Rudolph S. Rauch that he had been given fish or fish sauce only three times in three months, and had never received any meat or vegetables. Other Montagnards complained that they were not even getting their full portions of rice, supposedly 500 grams per person...
...technically feasible McGeorge Bundy made it intellectually us it was a historical necessity," Halberstam told an audience which included fellow Vietnam journalists Francis Fitzgerald '62 and Kevin Buckley. "America was a 'can-do' nation. To McNamara, technology was the answer to everything. Just stick a few computers into the rice paddies..." Halberstam said...