Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson states that the nation's economy is rich enough to meet the responsibilities at home without neglecting our responsibilities in the world. The truth is we are not meeting our responsibilities at home...
Part of the reason lies in the vast areas of countryside they still control. The countryside is what Mao Tse-tung called "the true bastion of iron" for a revolutionary and guerrilla war, and from that bastion, particularly the populous, rice-rich Delta, comes food for the ten or so North Vietnamese divisions fighting south of the DMZ as well as fresh recruits for the V.C. main-force units. V.C. women assemble hand grenades in jungle factories, stitch uniforms, care for the wounded. Small boys dig trenches and bunkers, carry messages, build booby traps and learn to throw an occasional...
...COSVN, and vouchers are required for all expenditures, adding to the snowstorm of paper circulating inside the V.C. administration. Corruption is dealt with severely, but it is persistently present. At least one tax collector in Dinh Tuong told the Allies that he was chosen "because my family was rich and the Front did not have to worry about whether I would flee with the cash...
...human situations. A king, stabbed by his son, can be seen dying in silence so as not to disturb his sleeping wife. And seduction scenes often show spying observers as well as oblivious lovers. Understandably, in time miniature painting became less illustration than a literature in itself, uncommonly rich in innuendo. Its message to modern men seems simply that the message need not be writ large to be a source of a thousand and one delights...
This is the 16th Judge Dee novel by Robert van Gulik, 57, who is the Netherlands' Ambassador to Japan and an Oriental scholar. His writing lacks somewhat in professional sheen, but Scholar Gulik more than compensates with rich and accurate historical detail of the Tang dynasty. The manners and mores, the factionalism and regionalism of that ancient era suggest that modern China is not, after all, much more adept at maintaining the writ of Peking over the vast, disparate reaches and peoples of the Asian Goliath...