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...rich, designed an agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country's first housing authority, which hopes to help finance 20,000 low-cost homes in the next twelve months. As new capital and new machines-tractors, trucks, sugar-cane grinders-pour into Santo Domingo, unemployment is down 50% to 200,000, wages are up 20%-40%, and workers are eating better...
Like men racing toward the Promised Land, refugees from Red China continued to pour into Hong Kong. By the thousands they burrowed under the new British-built barbed-wire fence on the border, or daringly swam across arms of the South China Sea, buoyed up by inflated bladders...
With its population already a bloated 3,250,000, Hong Kong can no longer absorb the steady flow of mainlanders who pour into the city daily. As Red China's hunger worsened, the flow became a flood...
Each hour, radio reports on battle progress pour into the headquarters of the U.S. Military Assistance Command on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Street. Here, in a spare, map-hung office, behind an uncluttered grey desk, sits the new chief of the U.S. military mission, General Paul Donal Harkins, 57, who holds the top command in the one spot in the world where U.S. troops are involved in a shooting-if undeclared-war against Communists. Symbolic of his task are the three flags behind his desk: the U.S. Stars and Stripes, the yellow and red banner of South Viet...
...detachment of regulars hammers the fort with mortar shells and machine-gun fire. From another direction come the Viet Cong assault troops. Blasting a wray through the barbed wire with explosives tied to the end of a pole, they swarm over the rampart screaming "Tien-len [Forward]'" and pour a withering fire into the startled defenders...