The New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, representing the values, economic principles, and way of life of the state’s agricultural families, recently held their annual meeting in Albuquerque. It was a characteristically optimistic, forward looking, get-down-to-business gathering displaying the opportunities and challenges of an economic segment vital to us all, befitting the truism that “if you eat, you are involved in agriculture.” The assembly also discussed that all too

In the beginning of 1971, the enemy attempted another nation-wide Tet offensive in South Vietnam. Through the night at DaNang we were hit several times by alternating rocket and mortar attacks, and there was a lot of action at the gates. The same was happening at most bases all night. Chu Lai, south of us, was almost overrun. The enemy's effort failed and everything went back to normal operations by the next morning. A couple of days later I was driving my jeep around the nor