Word: barter
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...beggars, though forbidden by law, swarm the streets. The dong has sunk so low-7,000 to the dollar-that it may well be the worst currency in the world. Even sister Communist countries refuse to accept it, and North Viet Nam's trade with them is through barter. Last week at long last, Minister Le, the Red who could write his budgets only in red ink, got the sack...
...Form of Legitimacy. In all this dazzling bewilderment of arguments, Khrushchev was obviously laying the groundwork for a new barter on Germany. He was not interested in reunification with free elections, which has long been Adenauer's and the West's position. He knows that his half has no moral authority, as shown by the number of refugees-2.000 a week-who flee to West Germany's prosperity and freedom. But he also knows the longing of all Germans for a closer community. His apparent strategy: using Berlin as his lever, to conclude a Big Four peace...
...wheat disposal: some wheat giveaways, said the President, have in time of famine saved the starving from death, while soft-currency sales have raised economic standards in the purchasing countries and thus "enlarged the markets for all." Barter sales, admittedly damaging to Canada in some instances, have been largely eliminated...
CHINA-JAPAN TRADE DEALS are off. Businessmen from Japan have been ordered to leave Red China, all import-export licenses are invalid, and ballyhooed fiveyear, $560 million Chinese-Japanese barter deal is dead. Chinese claim break is due to Japanese Premier Kishi's "hostile attitude toward China," but a main reason is that Red Chinese are trying to welsh on some deals...
...Pigsty. The quality of the peasants' mercy is severely war-strained. When the slatternly mistress of the first refuge proposes to barter away Rosetta's virginity with the local Fascist bullyboys in exchange for her deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks...