Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years of State Department decision-making on Southeast Asia. He traces mistakes to inadequate information, charging that analysts in State have naively accepted reports from the heads of local governments rather than sending qualified people into the countryside to check for themselves. In countries that are populated predominantly by rural peasants, says Lederer, "our government almost invariably doesn't know enough about what is going...
...median College Board Scores for the class are 680 in verbal and 710 in math -- a level which has varied little over the past few years. "The scores have remained constant at least partly because of our efforts to get students from rural areas and urban slums; they don't score as well as those from suburbia," Smith said...
Modest though such prerogatives may seem to outsiders, they constitute a vital return to ancient custom for the rural Vietnamese, whose whole harsh span of years may well be lived out within a ten-mile radius of his village birthplace. The conquering Chinese in 207 B.C. first organized the Vietnamese into close-knit villages, with a council of elders and a headman who was priest, welfare worker and justice of the peace all in one. When the Chinese were thrown out, the forms remained and took root in an almost feudal system of loyalty to locality. But with the coming...
Terror Campaign. Since rural Vietnamese, like most rural folk everywhere, tend to be hostile to all big-city folk anyway, such repression of local expression for years provided the Viet Cong with a potent rallying cry. Until now, the successor governments to Diem in Saigon have done little about it. It is clear from the Communists' frantic response that they consider the local elections a major threat. They have begun a country-wide campaign to intimidate candidates and voters alike. Already they have killed two council candidates (one was gunned down last week only ten miles from Saigon...
...Princetonian from Greenville, Del., Thompson was an architect when World War II began. He went to Asia as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, liked the area so well that he stayed on when the war ended. Fascinated by the silk spinners he saw when traveling in rural Thailand, he collected samples of their work in a suitcase, brought them to New York and persuaded fashion designers to use them. He went back to Thailand, started his business with $700 and contracted with the dying silk industry, whose 200 scattered weavers worked on ancient handlooms, to turn...