Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that at least 50% of the people no longer supoort the government. The defector, a onetime portrait painter in his late 20s, testified that there is much discontent, but that people are afraid of talking honestly except among friends since the penalty for dissent is jail. Rationing is still strict, he said, and the 30-lb. monthly rice allotment is now 60% laced with Soviet wheat, a fact that distresses the North Vietnamese, who, like most Asians, find cereal grains untoothsome...
Tough Facade. Whether such differences actually exist or not, the regime is still putting up a tough facade. In a meeting with his military leaders, Ho Chi Minh last week declared that peace will come "only when all American aggressor troops are completely swept out of our country and the puppet traitors are overthrown." Added Ho: "I look forward to hearing of great and glorious new victories against the enemy." It is bellicose talk, but no American analyst could say for certain whether Ho really meant it-or whether it was only rhetoric intended to strengthen the Communists' bargaining...
...memories and memorials of that day in 1944 have not. On the beaches, in the cliffs and dunes and marshes beyond them, linger the grim reminders-rusted guns, brownish-black pillboxes, and endless rows of crosses. TIME Correspondent Benjamin Cate toured the battle areas, talked with the French who still live where so much blood was spilled, and last week sent this report...
...Wall," are everywhere. In Ver-sur-Mer, at one end of the beach promenade, tourists stroll past a blockhouse that now serves as a signal station for fishing boats. A few blockhouses elsewhere have been converted into homes, chicken coops and storage sheds. All along the coast, demolition teams still roam the countryside searching for unexploded ammunition; every so often, when a big enough haul is accumulated, it is blown up on Omaha after the tide has come in. At Arromanches-les-Bains, snuggled between yellowish cliffs, pony-drawn buggies roll along the beach to show tourists the town...
...role on Dday. Courseulles-sur-Mer claims that it, not Graye-sur-Mer, is the spot where George VI and Winston Churchill stepped ashore; the two villages are barely 50 meters apart. Sainte-Mère-Eglise and Bénouville, both in drop zones for Allied paratroops, are still haggling over which was liberated first (Bénouville was). To the thousands of tourists -mostly French-who come every year, the claims and counterclaims make little difference. They come and they look, silently, respectfully, moved by the monuments-visible and invisible -to what took place in Normandy 25 years...