Word: droughts
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...soccer in Harvard Stadium the last two days were beginning to wonder it they would ever see a goal. They waited two days more than a game and a half, finally, Canada's Gerry Gray put one in at 25.30 of last night's game to end the scoring drought...
...that seems to be an eon in the affairs of this country. Reagan as a young man never indulged in self-pity. He fought the Depression and won, gaining strength and stature from the challenge. Mondale, as a Midwest preacher's child in those years of drought and deprivation, was scarred by the suffering. Then he heard the glorious promises of Government from his mentor, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and he never looked back...
There has been no rainfall in many parts of Mozambique for three years, and the earth, the grass dwellings and even the sky have turned a deadly ashen hue. International relief officials in the capital of Maputo estimate that 170,000 Mozambicans have died since the drought began. A United Nations situation report issued in early June predicts that Mozambique's famine will probably worsen through the year and reach its most critical stage early in 1985. U.N. officials in Mozambique say that 1.5 million people out of a population of about 13.4 million are already totally dependent...
...stations and marketplaces and in fields. The Marymount Mission near Rushinga in northeastern Zimbabwe is serving a daily ration of beans and soup to refugees. Although local Zimbabweans have been generous to the Mozambicans, who are of the same tribe, the Shona, their country is also stricken by drought and there is little food available. However, the U.N.'s World Food Program has agreed to supply Zimbabwe with foodstuffs worth $1 million to feed the refugees. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees have set up three large camps, and plan...
...following a general strike and a cutoff of U.S. aid, the military relinquished power and invited Siles back from his exile in Peru. But his coalition of four left-of-center parties, including the local Communists, has bickered incessantly ever since; a series of economic mistakes, coupled with severe drought and flood, have brought the country to the brink of ruin. The inflation rate reached 328% in 1983, and could hit 2,000% this year. Although the treasury is bare and foreign banks have been calling for a solution to Bolivia's $3.4 billion foreign debt, the country...