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...Harvard, it's difficult to get people fromall over the country to rally around a citycouncil election," Boyle says. "It just doesn'thit home...
Even the threat of assassination is not always a weapon against the Thais. Last June, when 70 terrorists invaded tiny Ban Khaw Noi and called everyone out for a propaganda session, Local Teacher Khun Thit holed up in his hut with a pistol. He pumped his only two bullets into two terrorists who came after him. Then he grabbed a submachine gun from one of his victims, rolled himself up in a mattress and began blasting away when the rest of the band tried to take him. Two hours, 400 rounds and several grenades later, when the noise finally brought...
...campaign, Thieu and Ky are likely to remain the heavy favorites. Although they are not campaigning with the civilians, they are showing no signs of complacency. Last week Ky helicoptered from one Mekong Delta hamlet to another, snipped a ribbon that officially reopened the long-besieged Mang Thit-Nicolai canal (TIME, Aug. 11), handed out gifts of U.S. outboard motors and blankets, chatted with the villagers. He was not campaigning, Ky said with a straight face. He was only doing his duty as Premier...
...unworried along Route 4, and trucks piled with rice, hogs, chickens and vegetables streamed toward Saigon. But the traffic was not nearly enough. Twenty-five miles farther south of Route 4 lies another major artery that is still clogged by Viet Cong terrorism. It is the 30-mile Mang Thit-Nicolai canal, which is the main waterway between the ricelands of the Delta and the rest of Viet Nam. Until only a few years ago, it was one of the country's busiest canals; the villages on its banks were among Viet Nam's most prosperous. But while...
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