Word: controller
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Although all land is owned by the state, a revised contract system between farmers and government cooperatives gives individual farmers control of the land and production for 15 to 30 years. Farmers grow what they want and sell at the market price. Largely as a result, Vietnam has become the world's third biggest rice exporter, after Thailand and the U.S. The turnaround is remarkable, given the near famine conditions that existed in the spring of 1988 in parts of central and northern Vietnam. A further indication of improved conditions in the North is the sharp reduction in the numbers...
...first time, researchers say they have identified a gene that may play a role in causing alcoholism, strengthening the case that heavy drinking can be a physical disease over which an individual has little control. The finding, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "opens a window of hope" for treating alcoholics, according to co-author Dr. Ernest Noble of the University of California, Los Angeles. If the report holds up, doctors may be able to devise blood tests and treatments for alcoholism within the next ten years...
...Hizballah has been partly limited by the fact that Damascus is a supporter of the Shi'ite Amal, a secular Muslim group that continues to fight fierce battles with the fundamentalist Hizballah. But Hussein Musawi, leader of a pro-Syrian faction within Hizballah, is now believed to have taken control of the American hostages held by the IJLP...
Chanes, 63, and Diaz, 51, were among Fidel Castro's original companeros, but after the Communists took control of Cuba in 1959, the two former guerrillas became disenchanted. Chanes, a security guard who served briefly in the revolutionary government, began to criticize Castro; Diaz, a fisherman and bus driver, joined a paramilitary dissident group in Miami. In 1961 Chanes was arrested for plotting to assassinate Castro, a charge human-rights groups believe was trumped up. Although Chanes' 30-year sentence expires next year, his former prison mates doubt he will be set free. Diaz was seized in 1968, while attempting...
...paratroopers, many of whom have settled in California. In a speech in San Jose early this month, former President Nguyen Van Thieu, now living in London, suggested that if political changes are not forthcoming in Hanoi, the refugees should be prepared to head home, shoulder weapons and seize control again...