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Gouged Eyes. The Red-carrot approach consisted of offering new recruits to the Peasants Liberation Party a salary of 500 baht per month and the promise of a new tractor for the village. Now the ante is far higher. In Nakhon Phanom province, the Red Chinese are offering a 50,000-baht reward for the murder of Provincial Education Officer Thavil Chanlawong, one of the northeast's most effective anti-Communist workers. In one Nakhon Phanom district, the terrorists have killed 16 villagers in the past year, kidnaped six more, and early this month shot the village doctor...
Like Mafatlal, other young Indians have entered new fields by associating with foreign companies. Keshub Mahindra, 42 (University of Pennsylvania '47), controls 15 companies that make, among other goods, Jeeps in conjunction with Kaiser, tractors with International Harvester, and elevators with Otis Elevator. Hari Nanda, 48, of New Delhi makes everything from railroad couplers to razor blades, is now manufacturing arm tractors designed in India with French engines and Polish transmissions, as well as a baby tractor priced at $1,000, the cost of three teams of bullocks...
...official permission to build a multimillion-dollar plant at Toulouse to make transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. recently received approval for a semiconductor factory at Colmar, and the French subsidiary of Caterpillar got authority in mid-March to double the size of its Grenoble tractor factory. Though the French still consider some industries off limits for foreign capital-among them, defense, steel, chemicals and some types of electronics-the Ministry of Economics and Finance so far this year has not turned away a single U.S. firm that is seeking to invest or expand in France...
During the past five years, some 15,000 backyard mechanics have bolt ed souped-up engines onto skeleton aluminum frames, stuck on a couple of tractor seats and suspended the entire Rube Goldberg contraptions on bloated airplane tires - sometimes two up front and four in back. Organized into a par cel of clubs, the enthusiasts range from young mothers to 70-year-old business men, from hard-nosed competitors to misty-eyed naturalists. They all have one thing in common - a child's impatience for the next rally or picnic...
Also at Fort Belvoir, Army engineers are trying out the versatile Universal Engineer Tractor, which resembles a World War I tank, is mostly aluminum and weighs only 31,000 Ibs. The UET can be used as a bulldozer, grader, scraper, armored personnel carrier or general-purpose transport, has an over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...