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Mass Graves. But they were no match for the machine guns and artillery of Obote's army. After two days of fighting there was no palace left to defend. Great columns of yellow smoke rose over the rubble of Mengo Hill and the hillside was littered with fallen Bu ganda warriors. Cordons of troops prevented Red Cross workers from reaching most of the dead and wounded, but volunteers managed to carry more than 200 bodies to the central police morgue: the rest were hauled away at night in army trucks and dumped into mass graves, uncounted...
Food stockpiles at home have shrunk $1.3 billion (to $6.7 billion) since 1960, now consist of 818 million bu. of wheat, 55 million tons of feed grains, 7.7 million cwt. of rice, and 126 million Ibs. of dried milk. Pointing out nonetheless that domestic commodity stockpiles "must be large enough to serve as a stabilizing influence and to meet any emergency," Johnson asked Congress to authorize establishment of reserves for certain strategic commodities. Such reserves, he said, would be built up and maintained by Government purchases on the open market rather than relying on accumulation through subsidies and price-support...
...Master, a Slave. He couldn't have cared less. By the time he was 40, Bu soni was sick of performing and wanted only to compose. During the summer, when the concert circuit closed down, he wrote music like a madman; and what he wrote, though not great music, is sometimes music of great fascination and historical importance. Busoni is an important moment of transition in mu sic. He falls between two styles, the romantic and the modern. In his struggle to reconcile the two, he helped to break up the romantic tradition and in his late compositions...
...three Vietnamese battalions in the war's biggest battle. The guerrillas seemed to be everywhere-and in strength. A full regiment overran Ba Gia; another annihilated a Vietnamese battalion in Binh Duong province; a third captured the town of Dak Sut; U.S. Special Forces defenders were bloodied at Bu Dop and Due Co. Talk of neutralism began to stir the cities of the South as the fledgling military regime of Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky-the tenth Saigon government since Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination in November 1963-shakily took power in June...
...campaign without any real issues, the most either man could promise was more, more, more to a prosperously contented nation that is already getting more every day-and expects it as a matter of course. Even the huge wheat sales to Russia and Red China (850 million bu. worth $1.7 billion in the past two years) were taken for granted; of 48 seats in the prairie provinces, Pearson's Liberals won exactly one. By the same token, last winter's series of influence-peddling scandals in Pearson's government seemed to have little carryover effect...