Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea, arguing that it would provide an ideal opportunity for the forces freed from combat to root out Viet Cong political agents in rural areas. The Viet Cong, of course, might see exactly the same opportunity to clean out government representatives...
...countries are al ready quite similar. Both have large managerial groups, and both still allow glaring inequalities-the "half-truths and hypocritical evasion" of Soviet propaganda notwithstanding. In Russia, he says, "there is still great inequality in wealth between the city and the countryside, especially in rural areas that lack a transport outlet to the private market or do not produce the goods in demand in private trade. There are great differences between cities with some of the new, privileged industries and those with older, antiquated industries. As a result, 40% of the Soviet population are in difficult economic circumstances...
...dismay of Cuba's city dwellers, the Castro revolution has been strictly a rural phenomenon. More than 30% of Cuba's gross national product is reinvested in the earth to the planned detriment of the city dweller. As a result, more than half of the 50,000 Cubans fleeing annually are Habaneros. They have taken with them most of the liveliness that once made Havana the "Paris of the Caribbean...
...Force investment is modest: only $27,000 worth of medical supplies a month. But it is effective, since the program brings treatment to some 800,000 rural patients a year. By ensuring that the supplies are parceled out free of charge and always dealing through Thai officials, the Commandos are cementing relations between the Northeasterners and their own government in Bangkok...
...past twelve years has run the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti along with his wife Gwen. Larry Mellon's forte has been in giving all of his monies away to a hospital cen ter dedicated to the care of over 300,000 patients in a rural setting who otherwise would be without this resource. He is my nominee for the Nobel Prize for Peace in the Western Hemisphere...