Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above Phnom-Penh confirm that most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are spilling into the northeast and northwest quadrants of the country. Their temporary destination may be the quiet shores of Tonle Sap Lake, 70 miles north of Phnom-Penh. There they would be near the Cambodian rice bowl and a rich supply of fish, while waiting for a chance to move closer to the border...
...gold-roofed royal palace-now nearly deserted-and churned past homes and stores that once belonged to the city's hard-working Vietnamese. On deck, rain squalls washed over squealing, fussing groups of children who clutched boxes of C-rations or dipped dirty fingers into bowls of rice and fish...
Though the U.S. is footing some of the bill, Saigon figures it will cost the Vietnamese taxpayer 50 cents a day to supply each refugee with 50 grams of rice, dried fish and cooking oil, as well as medical assistance. "This is an essential humanitarian operation," said John Paul Vann, chief American pacification adviser in the Delta region. Noting that the refugees seem quite loyal to the Saigon government, Vann added that it "should have fantastically good results for my pacification program." One of the refugees, an old, half-blind widow named Nguyen Thi Mai, put it more simply...
...program came in 1967-68, when 400 defoliation sorties were flown monthly. Now considerably reduced to a "classified" number of missions, the program continues under the ironic code name "Operation Ranch Hand." To date, the herbicides have affected an estimated five million acres, including 500,000 acres of rice and other crops...
...Race and Class Conflict in Modern Society," "Language and Revolution." Signs were plastered everywhere urging KEEP THE PEACE and warning that VIOLENCE IS THE TOOL OF FASCISM. The residential colleges opened their courtyards for the bedding down of visitors. The university provided slim but sustaining meals of salad and rice for all comers...