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They were furious when Kenya got the territory from Britain as part of its in dependence package in 1963, and ever since, the Somalis have trained and equipped the terrorists. Like a small-scale Viet Cong, the shifta have am bushed army patrols, sown vast networks of road mines, and abducted and tortured village headmen. Their raiders have killed at least 645 civilians for not cooperating with them. But lately the Kenyan government has been successfully striking back-largely by forcing the nomadic tribes to settle down where they can be kept under scrutiny...
Defense against helicopters was developed too. Choppers bringing U.S. troops to the rescue may be greeted by sharp, 6-ft. stakes pointed skyward to rip open their bellies, or electrically detonated mines sown beneath the sod. So prized is a helicopter kill to the Viet Cong that a soldier who shoots one down is rewarded with a month's leave, a bicycle, a pen and a watch...
...Instead, Harpaz turned to the virus itself. Further research revealed that it was extremely sensitive to heat, ceasing all reproductive activity within the plant hopper when the temperature reached 76°F. To Harpaz, this suggested a simple solution: instead of in early April, hybrid corn should not be sown in Israel until late May. Thus when the seedlings emerged early in June, he reasoned, the few viruses left in the plant hoppers' salivary glands would be too sluggish to infect the corn...
...test Harpaz' findings, Israeli farmers last year planted some of their hybrid corn in early April, the rest late in May. There could be no doubt about the results. Although 45% of the plants sown in April came down with Maize Disease, only 3% of the May plants were infected. Similar tests, adjusted for local temperature variations, have also proved successful in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Italy, where corn farmers are learning that they can reap more by sowing later...
...separate service programs for the military service; it would seek to make humanitarianism a working part of our defensive military posture. Clearly the requirements of military training will still have to be met, and the military system may adjust to this with difficulty. But let the seed be sown as soon as the present war is over. There is no threat that such a philosophy will threaten the strength of our defense; on the contrary, as the level of education in this country rises and the temperament of youth changes, our soldiers may demand that they be asked...