Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conditions that can make jury duty so frustrating vary from place to place. Citizens are on call for as long as a year in rural areas of Wisconsin and most of Montana; daily pay can range from $45 a day in Kewaunee County, Wis., to $5 in civil cases in San Francisco, where nothing at all is paid to those who wait. Tensions inside the jury room can be painful, particularly if the jurors are sequestered at night. But the most common complaints are boredom and a sense of futility. Many are called and few chosen. Even those...
...Fletcher's WRAL. "The old man," says Bailey, "thought the sun rose and set right behind Jesse's left ear." WRAL, that hymn-and-hog-price 250-watter, was now Capitol Broadcasting, an empire embracing the radio outlet, Raleigh's first TV station and a hookup of about 70 rural stations called the Tobacco Radio Network. Fletcher piled three executive titles on Helms and let him do the station's editorials...
Government officials credit their achievement to aggressive rural-development programs, innovative military tactics and a healthy dose of Communist squabbling. To win the peasants to its side, Bangkok provided new varieties of rice, and imported silkworms to stimulate silk production. Instead of staging massive military operations against guerrilla enclaves, the army intensified its psychological-war effort. "Before, when we captured a Communist, we just pushed him out of a helicopter," Major General Sudsai Hasdin told TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss. "But this use of force just gave the Communists a propaganda advantage...
...Unlike the northeast, where poor farmers were drawn to the Communists by promises of a better life, the south spawned guerrillas who concentrated their propaganda on government corruption. "The people in the south become Communists for revenge, not ideology," explains Uthai Hiruntoa, the Interior Ministry's director for rural development in the five southernmost provinces. "Fighting is intense today because the hatred is very strong...
...Shumchun, a short walk across a bridge from the British colony of Hong Kong. Visitors sensed immediately that they were in another country, a world apart from the bustle of capitalist Hong Kong. Men and women in baggy pants moved at quarter-speed in a changeless setting of rural stupor...