Word: progresses
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There are, however, encouraging signs of progress on some reservations. The Lummi tribe of Washington State, a sea-oriented people along Puget Sound, are using federal funds and considerable hard labor to develop the most advanced aquafarm in the U.S. They control the spawning and cultivating of oysters, the breeding of hybrid steelhead-rainbow trout and the harvesting of algae, used in making toothpaste, ice cream and pudding. It may net $1,000 an acre for the Indians, compared with at most $40 an acre in land farming...
EVER since the 1968 Tet offensive, officials in Washington and Saigon have recoiled from any excessive hopefulness about progress in the Viet Nam War. But hope is a hardy plant. For several months, a mood of guarded optimism has been budding in Washington, as dispatches from the field tell of new South Vietnamese strength and growing Communist weakness. Now, however, serious doubts are being cast on the validity of this "underground optimism," as it has come to be known...
...once again be misleading the nation. The document was prepared by James G. Lowenstcin and Richard M. Moose, both former foreign service officers who are considered moderates of a mildly dovish persuasion. They visited Viet Nam for eleven days in December. They warn that the yardsticks used to measure progress in Viet Nam consist of "far more ambiguous, confusing and contradictory evidence than pronouncements from Washington and Saigon indicate." Adds the report: "A visitor to Viet Nam can easily find evidence to support any case he wishes to make." Other observations...
Fragile Gains. The report does not dispute claims that in many areas major progress has been made in securing the countryside and turning the war over to the Vietnamese. It concedes that 1) pacification of the countryside is progressing, and roads and canals are the safest in years; 2) the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) has improved, though it remains spotty and heavily dependent on U.S. support troops; and 3) an effective home-front militia is armed and operating...
...broom-or ax. The company he took over was in paralysis after three years of proxy battles and within four weeks was to report the $35 million loss for 1969. Part of that deficit, though, was accounted for by the cancellation of 15 films in progress that Aubrey decided were poor box-office risks. He killed an adaptation of André Malraux's Man's Fate after $3,000,000 and three years out of the life of Director Fred Zinnemann had been invested in it. Under Aubrey's "streamlining" program, MGM's 183-acre Hollywood...