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Some pessimistic Western observers believe that a government-encouraged wave of anti-Americanism could come next. "We've kept the U.S. forces on our soil for too long," said Seni Pramoj, the brother of Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj. "We sent our troops to fight in Viet Nam. I'm sure that the Viet Cong did not like our actions." With South Viet Nam's captured American arsenal and a rich new source of manpower-the population of both Viet Nams is about 43,000,000-Hanoi will now be the preeminent military power in Southeast Asia...
...deliver messages. Other volunteers served as cooks and baby sitters, changing diapers and burping infants. One of the few offers the military refused was one from McDonald's to provide each of the arriving evacuees with a burger and a Coke as they set foot on American soil in order to introduce them as quickly as possible to what the hamburger chain's publicity men call "the American way"; to Air Force officials the idea seemed a bit like a publicity gimmick...
...plots to the public at $8 each per year. From coast to coast, gardening clinics are packing in S.R.O. audiences with Hoe-It-Yourself lectures ranging from Coping with Cutworm to Installing a French Intensive Bed (a system designed to reduce moisture loss and weed growth by mounding the soil...
Blue Potatoes. By planting and tending them, the home gardener can assure himself a supply of vegetables that actually taste as if they were a product of soil and sun rather than recycled chemicals...
Critics of the dam point out that it has obstructed the natural flow of silt that enriched the soil of farms along the Nile. Thus it has been necessary to increase the use of imported chemical fertilizers on farms downstream from the dam. Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta. In addition, they claim that the absence of the organic matter in the silt in the waters at the river's mouth has deprived sardines and shrimp of an adequate food supply...