Word: drought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst drought in Africa's recorded history has not yet killed many people. But for West Africa these days, the situation is quite literally one of feast or famine. In a massive multi-nation relief effort, grain sacks are piled high in Dakar, Abidjan and Lagos, the chief railheads for the drought-desolated nations of Chad, Niger, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali and Senegal. Their antiquated railroad networks cannot move grain quickly enough into the interior. The ongoing airlift offers the most plausible solution, but there are not enough aircraft. The result is that while mass famine has been averted...
When Indira Gandhi mounted the sandstone ramparts of Delhi's Red Fort last week to deliver the traditional address marking the anniversary of India's independence, the heavy monsoon sky was a somber gray. But at least it provided rain and relief from a disastrous two-year drought. That was more than Indira Gandhi and India's 575 million people could hope for concerning the nation's social and economic outlook...
Bloody Clash. Indira then warned her countrymen that military victories do not come cheap. She was right. The costs and dislocations of war have combined with drought to produce near famine, water shortages, power failures, price increases, labor strife, unemployment and street crime. Power failures caused by drought and labor sabotage of power plants have left New Delhi, the nation's capital, blacked out or browned out three times in as many months and many factories unable to operate. Unemployment is hard to pinpoint statistically in a land of perpetual underemployment (estimated at 24%). The jobless are now numbered...
WOOL: A long period of low prices and drought cut the sheep flock in Australia, the major supplier, from 180 million in 1970 to 142 million last March. Since 1970-71, prices have soared from...
...defense. Butz last week told TIME Correspondent John Berry: "As late as last August, we had adequate stocks of wheat even with the Russian sales. What we did not foresee was the drought in India, the problems in Bangladesh, the short crop in Australia. Everybody was pressing us then, including Senator Jackson, to do something to raise the prices that farmers were getting. If he had been sitting in my seat, he would have made the same decision. I make no apology for my desire to raise farm prices...