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...mandate. Reports TIME Correspondent James Shepherd from New Delhi: "Much of the economy's forward thrust has been less the doing of Indira's government than a benevolent rain god who has given India four consecutive excellent harvests since the drought years. This year's food crop will be around 106 million metric tons, the best ever." From Mrs. Gandhi's point of view, that is good reason to hold elections now-before the rain god has a chance to turn malevolent...
...commission added that most crop destruction took place in the Central Highlands, the home of the Montagnards, a tribe racially and linguistically distinct from the Lowland Vietnamese...
When asked if the animosity between the lowlanders and Montagnards might have been a factor in the crop destruction, Meselson said, "The lowlanders' traditional dislike for the Montagnards may well have been one factor among the many which led to the lack of adequate precautions...
...fact, given up a very great deal in signing renunciation-of-force agreements with West Germany. By so doing, the Communists tacitly acknowledged that Bonn is a peaceful partner. For a quarter of a century, the Communists had been blaming the "revenge-seeking" West Germans for everything from crop failures to high military expenditures. Warsaw Pact soldiers sent into Czechoslovakia in 1968 were told, for example, that they were "marching to save our comrades from subversion and invasion by the fascist West Germans...
...were predictions that it would eventually triple or even quintuple. The cyclone was thus guaranteed its place as the 20th century's worst natural disaster. In all, the storm devastated a densely populated, 3,000-sq. mi. area, destroying 90% of the buildings and 90% of the rice crop. In some areas, TIME's Ghulam Malik reported last week, "it was like the beginning of life after Doomsday. People were wandering naked, wailing the names of kin who never responded. At Hatia, survivors wore rags that they found in ponds and ditches. And if they could find...