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Across the border in South Viet Nam, government troops continued to battle North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in actions scattered across the country. Canadian and Indonesian truce officials, thwarted by both sides as well as by their Hungarian and Polish colleagues, were hinting at quitting the ineffective International Commission...
After serving three scattered terms, Ervin left the legislature to devote full time to practicing law with his father. "It was from him that I got the feeling that the freedom of the individual-no matter how lowly he is-is fundamental," Ervin recalls. The elder Ervin was especially incensed...
Dioxin has caused birth defects and death in animals, and Meselson said that there have been scattered reports in South Vietnam of fatal herbicide poisoning. In addition, the five scientists found that in some areas in South Vietnam, after herbicide spraying, the rate of still births doubled.
This quiet light wouldn't expose everything, only scattered pieces of the world, and glitter for a moment. It made the world seem broken, and smaller; as if dispresed from a thunderstorm, and shattered and bedraggled.
By and large, the poorer and more primitive the country, the worse the thievery. Says Clemency Coggins, an authority on pre-Columbian art and archaeology: "Not since the 16th century has Latin America been so ruthlessly plundered." Teams descend (sometimes literally, from helicopters) on any of the hundreds of Mayan...