Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to talk peace," says Agricultural Historian Wayne Rasmussen, "a sufficient supply of food is one of the best assurances...
...grow food, you can't eat, and if you can't eat, you can't fight." Rice crops have been destroyed and planting new fields has become dangerous. Pol Pot's forces harass farmers in areas controlled by Viet Nam, while the Vietnamese do their best to prevent food supplies from getting to the Khmer Rouge...
Iran's state radio and television last week once again attacked Western news organizations. This time, Tehran's anger was directed against those who "raise hell when Iran punishes murderers but shut up when the best youths of Iran are murdered by agents of Zionism and imperialism." That was a reference to the fact that newsmen in Tehran had paid little attention to an ambush by Kurdish rebels in which 52 Islamic militiamen were killed. But if the Western press is not to be trusted, why then did the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini sit for an interview with Italian...
...girl's best friend can be a politician's worst enemy. Last week the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné charged that President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, while serving as Finance Minister six years ago, had accepted a 30-carat tray of diamonds worth $240,000 from Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was deposed as Emperor of the Central African Republic last month. There is no law prohibiting French politicians from accepting such largesse. The Elysée Palace, in fact, while trying to minimize what it called the "nature...
Giscard's sharp decline in popularity has fueled rumors that he may soon replace Barre. "He is an honest man, above all suspicion," Giscard responded when asked about Barre on a television interview. Coming from the President, who had lauded Barre as "the best economist in France," that faint praise appeared to signal a new arm's-length distance between the President and his Premier...