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Massive Sweeps. Cambodia's survival will require many other drastic changes, including the rescue of its stricken economy. Rubber exports, which account for one-fourth of the country's foreign exchange, are down to a trickle, and will soon halt altogether. Rice exports, which account for more than half, are likely to drop by nearly 60%. Still, Cambodia's most immediate needs are military. So far help has come almost entirely from the South Vietnamese. More than 25,000 ARVN regulars remained in Cambodia after the U.S. departure, conducting massive sweeps north, northwest and northeast of Phnom...
...army of some 120,000 men-only half of whom have even been issued weapons -can absorb new recruits. Moreover, the nation needs its citizens for productive labor almost as desperately as it needs them for fighting. Since the war spread to the interior, Cambodia's exports, chiefly rubber and rice, have trickled down to almost zero...
Inside the sunken, multistory bunkers, equipped with electric lights, TV, foam-rubber mattresses and even disposable plastic mess gear, life becomes a routine of sitting out one artillery barrage after another. Dust blows off the dunes in gagging flurries and the heat is stifling, but the bunkers are relatively safe. The tanklike forts are topped with such a sturdy mixture of sand, concrete, timber and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai line that even accurate salvos send little more than tremors below. The Suez defenders, who call themselves "moles," pass the hours in the cramped forts cleaning their...
...subject sex has rarely been approached with thicker rubber gloves and longer forceps than in your article. Nearest to it might be the Boy Scout manual of 1936 (page...
Hurt worst were full-time workers, mostly blue-collar whites on whom Nixon counts for political support. All together 270,000 jobs were lost last month, including 100,000 because of rubber, trucking and construction strikes. Now the great question vexing Nixon's policymakers is whether the figures will become much worse. The President's chief economist, Paul McCracken, still declines to call the current slump a recession (his own word is "recedence"), and he insists that the economy will bottom out at about its present level...