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Politically, despite the pleadings of U.S. officials-and rumbles of discontent from his opponents-Diem is in no mood to relax his authoritarian rule. Economically, the war has taken a heavy toll. The Viet Cong have cut off rice shipments from the interior and rubber production is down sharply. Gold and foreign exchange reserves have dipped from $222 million in 1960 to $158 million, and export earnings will drop this year from $70 million to $55 million. Nearly $2.5 billion in U.S. aid has only made South Viet Nam more dependent on-and more critical of-its friends...
Kicking at the limp bodies, the bandits kept saying: "Which one is Charry?" Full of the lust of battle, the bandits shot five more men, raped several women and girls, mutilated their bodies with machetes. Their afternoon's toll: 29 dead...
...business district. When a loudspeaker truck appeared, urging all to go home, promising that food would soon be abundant, the mob overturned the truck, forced the driver to yell, "Down with Communism!" The riot was not quelled until crack troops arrived and occupied the town after sporadic shooting. The toll of wounded or dead is not known; an estimated 400 demonstrators were jailed...
...city of 80,000 lying beside the nation's largest naval base 75 miles west of the Caracas capital, buried their dead and started to clean up their shell-pocked city. Official casualty figures for the military were 47 dead, 89 wounded. But unofficial estimates put the toll, including civilians, at more than...
...enthusiasm may have been the same, but it was not the same old Billy, for the years of crusading have taken their toll. At 185 Ibs., he is 25 Ibs. heavier than when he first began his preaching tours, and 5 Ibs. over what he says is his best preaching weight. He has cut out desserts, limited his butter intake, exercises twice a day in his hotel room with dumbbells. "I don't seem to have the reserve strength that I used to have," he says. Weary of constant traveling, he would like to spend more time with...