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...ultimate goal of ruling the area. Realizing that there was no other way to defeat a liberation movement which commanded a majority following, U. S. leaders opted for mechanical elimination of rural support. The strategy has worked almost completely in Vietnam; and with one-third of Laos now living in caves and one-tenth of all Cambodia rendered homeless by U. S. bombing, there is reason to believe that the strategy will also work in those countries if given enough time...
...Matter of Loyalty. Why did Crown, whose personal wealth is estimated at more than $400 million, want to re-enter the scene at General Dynamics? Last year profits tumbled from a 1966 peak of $54 million to $2,530,000, only one-tenth of 1% of the company's $2.5 billion sales. G.D. has been plagued by losses in its shipyard division, a microfilm products subsidiary, and the controversial F-111 fighter-bomber...
...many northern Italian plants, however, have now climbed to equality with other parts of the Common Market, and Italian unions are demanding that the same scales be extended to workers in the depressed south. One result: Societa Generate Semicon-duttori, the country's biggest maker of electronic components, is building a $1.3 million transistor plant in Singapore, where wage costs will be only one-tenth what they are in Italy...
...activity came just as the Calcutta police were finally demonstrating an ability to handle the terrorists. In July, police rounded up 125 Naxalites and an arsenal of bombs. But, as one Calcutta police official admits, "police action is only one-tenth of the total effort required to curb the Naxalites." The other nine-tenths is social reform. In its 23 years of independence, the world's largest democracy has been running a dangerous race with famine, poverty and overpopulation. Unless reforms can improve life for the bulk of the Indian people, the bomb could replace Mahatma Gandhi...
...when she runs, only her competitors are embarrassed. Undefeated so far this season, she has established herself as the world's foremost female track star. At the National A.A.U. Championships in Los Angeles, she ran the 220-yd. dash in 22.6 sec., besting her own world record by one-tenth of a second. Last month the muscular (5 ft. 7½ in., 136 lb.) Chi set a world record of 10 sec. flat in the 100-yd. dash. Having posted the season's best marks in four different events, Chi finds it hard to specialize her training. "Hurdles...