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...said to have wrecked eight schools used by the Maoists as bases. The posters described clashes in Peking and Shanghai, claimed that fighting took place in Shantung in east China, in northwestern Sinkiang, the site of China's nuclear installations, in Inner Mongolia and in Honan, the largest wheat-growing province. Not surprisingly, the People's Daily last week warned that "anarchism" suddenly threatened to undo all the gains of the Cultural Revolution...
...with the annual increase in the birth rate. Last year, Brazil's population increased almost roughly by the equivalent of the total population of Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million). Yet Brazil's farm tools and techniques are so antiquated that the country actually produces less corn and wheat per acre than it did 30 years ago. Moreover, one-fourth of what it does produce spoils before it reaches market because of poor transportation and storage facilities. One of the few crops that Brazil produces in abundance-coffee-is too abundant; saddled with $220 million a year in coffee supports...
...Life. All in all, there does not seem to be much cause for gagging. Rhodesian farmers are rapidly diversifying their crops so that the country will no longer need to import such staples as wheat and soy beans. Despite the worldwide oil embargo, Rhodesia gets all the oil it needs from its good friend-and embargo breaker-South Africa. It also keeps its export market alive through agents in South Africa, in the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique and in the black African nation of Malawi (see following story). The Rhodesian pound may have been declared worthless on world...
...teach hygiene, plant crops and harvest friendship, build schools and instruct Vietnamese in carpentry or masonry in the process. Often they have to overcome U.S. red tape and age-old Vietnamese traditions along the way. One I.V.S.er, 28-year-old Paul Lukitsch of Milwaukee, discovered a U.S. AID-provided wheat thresher that the Vietnamese, ignorant of its workings, had not even uncrated. After "liberating" the machine, Lukitsch modified it for rice harvesting in the Delta, and reduced the threshing time of 1,000 bundles of rice from two days to 2½ hours. "We now have an unbelievable list...
...sugar-coating for the genocide that's going on here," argues David Gitelson, 25, a U.C.L.A. graduate and ex-G.I. now stationed in the Delta. A lanky loner who lopes around in sandals and faded Levi's, Gitelson carries his worldly possessions with him in a wheat sack, is known to the Vietnamese as "my ngheo"-the poor American. U.S. officials consider him the most effective American of all the thousands involved in Delta pacification. Says one: "All he has is strength, stamina and awkwardness. I wish we had more like...