Word: rich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of the mountain men has been centuries in the making. Primitive aborigines who wear loincloths and worship ghosts, they are descended from natives who occupied the Indo-Chinese peninsula long before the Chinese-related Vietnamese moved south some 1,700 years ago. The Vietnamese took over the rice-rich coastal plains and the Mekong Valley, pushing the aborigines into the rugged, jungle-thick mountains to the northwest...
Trouble between Saigon and the highlands began in 1954, when President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime attempted to "assimilate" the million-odd Montagnards. Tribal schools and courts were abolished, and 200,000 Vietnamese moved into the hills-often violating tribal tenure rights to grab rich land along the highlands' racing rivers. In Darlac, a Vietnamese province chief decreed that Montagnards must wear shirts and slacks; in Pleiku, Montagnards were forbidden to build their houses on stilts. By 1958, the tribesmen were completely dispossessed: Diem denied them title to their lands...
...breed fungi-resistant grain strains that will, like plasma in a blood bank, be immediately available for sowing in areas hard-hit by rust epidemics. They have already found new wheat and barley strains that are apparently resistant to rust. Says Wahl: "We must build up a bank rich in strains so that we are never again caught by a scavenger like...
...Rounding up $4,000, the refugee began his Beirut career as a moneychanger in a dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951. To woo his share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes and frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt, Syria and Iraq, Bedas became adept at handling skittish clients. Once he even hauled a suitcase of stocks from his vault to the mountain mansion of a suspicious sheik to assure him that his hoard was really intact and safe with Intra...
...sorry mess, but he remains curiously unaffecting and eerily unaffected. When the tide flows out after 20-some-odd years (how did they ever manage to squeeze it all into three-and-a-half hours?) all we know about this elusive virile fellow is that he has grown rich and a moustache, but never changed his jacket. While working as a male nurse during the measles epidemic, he takes it off, but that doesn't really count...