Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keeping It Out. Last week, in a series of articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Correspondent Richard Dudman added a few more details: "Middlemen sold some of the food to the starving at exorbitant prices. A wealthy landowner succeeded in keeping relief food out of [a nearby] valley so he could continue selling his own wheat at three times the normal price. Mills at Cuzco and Arequipa charged the drought-relief program 27? to 32? per 100 Ibs. for grinding grain when their normal fee was only 6?. Analysis of the flour showed it contained large amounts of dirt...
...Laos with ease. In case of battle, U.S. combat troops would probably not be the first to go into action in Laos. Instead, U.S.-manned helicopters and transports would drop guerrilla forces of Thais, Pakistanis and Filipinos into the fighting sectors while U.S. troops occupied the Mekong River valley towns from Savannakhet through Paksane and Vientiane, up to Luangprabang; this would provide strong defense for the towns while freeing 12,000 Laotian soldiers for action. Meanwhile. U.S. guerrillas would move in and beef up training of the native groups...
Peasants & Politicians. Virtually all of northern Laos that remained under government control was the Mekong River valley-and that was fast going. General Phoumi Nosavan and most of the members of Premier Boun Oum's Cabinet flew their wives and children downriver to the relative safety of Phoumi's southern headquarters in Savannakhet. Chinese merchants and those Laotians who could afford it sent their families across the Mekong into Thailand. In the villages surrounding Vientiane, peasants resignedly dug foxholes. Said one: "This war is not our business." The one thing the peasants clearly wanted...
...Californian Richard Doremus that residential nuclear fallout shelters are essential to the nation's total defense. Experience as a home builder convinced Doremus that he was the man to get things going in the "Exhibit Homes" development he was building in the Los Angeles suburbia of San Fernando Valley. For prospective buyers of his $29,500 to $31,500 houses, Doremus offered a bomb shelter under the garage for $1,100 extra. The small...
...creative contortions and esthetic argy-bargy, One-Eyed Jacks turns out to be just a big, slick, commercial horse opera. The film, to be sure, is meticulously produced, directed, acted and "dited, and it is often startlingly beautiful to see-there is a sequence, photographed in Death Valley, that rivals in pure malign geology the finest frames of Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder over Mexico. Nevertheless, many spectators will wish that a little less of the beauty had been created by God and a little more by Brando, and others may realize that, if it were less pretentious. Jacks would...