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Across the Lowu railroad bridge into Communist China one morning last week bustled the everyday traffic from Hong Kong: pongee-clad farmers hauling produce, old women bent double under sacks of flour, visitors with gifts for relatives on the mainland. By mid-morning 200 travelers had crossed the frontier, and one of them was carrying a lethal parcel. Then, as the line shuffled through Red China's wooden customs shed, a powerful blast splintered the building, killed an inspector and a woman traveler, injured 27 others...
...with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other agricultural customers. And its eye has lit on Red China, whose own monumental crop failures have forced it to buy grain abroad. During the past two years, with the purchase of $180 million worth of Australian wheat, barley, oats and flour, Red China has become Australia's fourth biggest export market (after Great Britain, Japan...
...Warsaw last week, thousands of Polish housewives queued up for sugar, flour, salt and potatoes. A shiny new self-service market called "Super Sam"* rang up $4,000 in sales during its first two hours...
...matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns in search of food...
...chistosoma, a debilitating liver parasite that infects one-fifth of the rural population. Average life expectancy in Brazil's Northeast is 30 years, and in Rio Grande do Norte, 463 of every 1,000 babies die in their first year. Most infants are fed a diet of manioc flour mixed with molasses, never taste milk and sometimes do not even get enough water. In Cruz de Armas, a village in Paraiba, the government operates an infant "rehydration station," which dispenses a watery soup to hundreds of children carried in by their parents. In one Rio Grande do Norte town...