Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other big cities that hold high priorities for food distribution. The distress slaughter of cattle last autumn for lack of fodder will inevitably make meat scarce until at least 1980. The government apparently decided to sacrifice animal feed for the sake of bread, the staple of the Russian diet. But farmers, who are allowed to keep livestock on their small private plots, are buying bread and illegally feeding it to their cows, pigs and chickens. Thus it seems probable that most Soviet consumers will be busy combing the markets for food until the next harvest. By the law of averages...
...Japan, a nationwide TV audience watched spellbound as the budget committee of the Diet questioned seven businessmen who had been involved in buying Lockheed planes. All seven denied any knowledge of Lockheed fees and bribes, which, in testimony to a U.S. Senate subcommittee headed by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, were said to total $12.7 million...
...Some $7 million went to Yoshio Kodama, a founder and onetime major bankroller of the party; the payments coincided with unexpected purchases in 1960 of Lockheed F-104 Starfighters by the Japanese government and the ordering in 1972 of six Lockheed TriStar jetliners by All Nippon Airways. The Japanese Diet will hold hearings on the affair this week; opposition politicians are demanding that Kakuei Tanaka, who was Prime Minister at the time of the TriStar buy, be called for questioning...
...political issue since ex-Premier Kakuei Tanaka resigned 15 months ago under charges of shady financial dealings. Fearful of voter reaction, the ruling Liberal Democrats now plan to put off until the fall parliamentary elections that were expected this spring. After marathon sessions with worried party members from the Diet, Premier Takeo Miki ordered an investigation by a lower-house committee, which this week will hear testimony from key principals in the case...
...Liberal Democrats were telling each other last week. That is a new sentiment. As recently as last December, Miki's administration received an abysmal 26.6% popularity rating in a public opinion poll. His ambitious reform program had made little headway. Promised antitrust legislation ended up pigeonholed in the Diet. Inflation was slowed to a manageable 9%, but the government failed to stop price rises on necessities like rice, oil and electric power. The party's hawkish right wing blocked Miki's attempts to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Miki seemed weak and ineffective; there were whispers that...