Word: thatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer can simulate voter reactions to any candidate, issue or appeal, without even the trouble of opinion polling and all those confusing "undecideds." Mad, Dev and the 7094 are on their way to the unbeatable propaganda mix. All they need is a possible candidate. They find him in John Thatch, an unknown American engineer who is completing a bridge across a jungle ravine on the border between India and Pakistan. He is clear-eyed, jut-jawed, sensible, intelligent, brave, independent, a superb exponent of do-it-yourself (or Ugly) diplomacy, and altogether a leader any computer could love. Can Thatch...
...book where the rest of the characters are punched out of IBM cardboard, the dialogue is Early Superman and the sex Late Mary Worth ("Someone was patting her hand in this comforting protective way . . . She wanted the patting to go on and on"), Candidate Thatch looks almost real...
...Kong Le mused about the long-range prospects in his thatch-roofed headquarters at Vang Vieng, guns boomed hollowly beyond the blue volcanic peaks around him. What will it take to win his war? "More soldiers," he said, "more money to pay them with, specially that, more artillery, more rifles and machine guns and mortars, more land mines-everything, should the U.S. be willing to provide that again." He shrugged. "I suppose that depends on what the U.S. wants to do in Southeast Asia. And only the U.S. can answer that question...
...Communists fired on the jets from the start, and with practice soon found the range. One day at noon, while maneuvering his RF-8A over the vicinity of Ban Ban, a collection of 300 thatch-roofed huts on Route 7, Navy Lieut. Charles F. Klusmann, 30, of San Diego felt ground fire thumping through his craft, ejected himself seconds before the plane tumbled to earth. An American search helicopter out of Vientiane spotted the downed pilot at the edge of a clearing, but it was driven off by Communist fire that wounded the chopper's copilot. The Pathet...
Phumy was soon isolated. Merchants closed shop; 130 tons of processed rice piled up at the village mill for lack of transport. Viet Cong cadres took over the schools, charged taxes-500 piasters on each of Phumy's thatch-roofed houses, plus eleven pounds of rice from each family per month. They also erected a 15-ft.-high concrete monument to Communism at the village gate...