Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets still had some say: Hanoi mysteriously announced that a "protocol on an exchange of experts" had been signed with Russia, indicating that Moscow might be preparing to resume some aid. To Cao Bang. North Viet Nam could use it. Thanks to inefficiency and "natural calamities," the rice crop fell to below 5,000,000 tons last year (down from 9,700,000 in 1962), cutting the minimum ration to less than 26 Ibs. per person per month. To expand arable land, the regime has ordered the crash-digging of irrigation canals and the migration of 300,000 peasants from...
...exchange for the $1,000,000 a day he gets from the Red bloc, Fidel Castro barters away Cuba's lifeblood -its sugar crop. That blood is beginning to get thin. Partly because of Hurricane Flora and partly because of pitiful mismanagement, Cuban sugar production this year is estimated at 3,300,000 tons, about half what it was in pre-Castro years. Yet Castro has committed more sugar (at bargain prices he can ill afford) to his Communist partners, until he now owes them more than he produces. Faced with this kind of debacle, Cuba last week...
...into the South China Sea. There are no roads in or out of the village. There is no bridge across the river. For centuries, Hoaimy has asked nothing of the world beyond the mountains and the sea except that it provide a market for the village's rice crop, which realizes some $400,000 a year...
...government had an uneasy conscience over having used a more or less unwitting nonprofessional. Said one British official: "This sort of trade makes it too bloody easy for the other side-we catch a big fish and they pick up some professor who has been asking about the wheat crop. If one of our real agents gets caught, then it's his duty to shut up and take what's coming and, if necessary, to die for his country...
...reasons, Smith seemed unlikely to declare independence from Britain immediately. His party holds a wafer-thin, five-seat majority in the 65-man Parliament, and he probably will not get parliamentary support for such a move. Moreover, the British now pay preferential prices for Southern Rhodesia's staple crop of tobacco; thus, independence might be costly. Hendrik Verwoerd's government in South Africa sympathizes with Smith's policies, but Verwoerd has no desire to take on Southern Rhodesia's economic and military problems in addition...