Word: garlic
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...little garlic goes a long, long, way -and soon, in the European Common Market, it will be going duty free In Brussels last week, as the year's first piece of legislation, Common Market ministers drew up a common garlic policy to remove all restrictions on the flow of the pungent AIlium sativnm...
Italy and France grow nearly all of the area's annual 110,000-ton output but no European kitchen could long survive without garlic. Some Europeans even swear by it as a remedy for rheumatism; Russians eat garlic to fight the common cold, last week rushed in an emergency 500 tons for Moscow's flu epidemic...
...improve and spread this supply the Common Market set up new and detailed regulations for grading and packing garlic (the bulbs must be free of dirt, manure or nongarlic smell) and decided to eliminate gradually all tariffs and import price controls on it. The plan, which was considered with all the solemnity suited to the occasion, was passed without a sniff of dissent...
...last week there was one blazing action in the waters off Cuba for which no one wanted to claim responsibility. It involved the 1,600-ton Spanish freighter Sierra Aranzazu, some 40 miles northwest of Great Tnagua Island in the Bahamas, bound for Havana with a cargo of garlic, cognac, chicken coops and plows...
...checked tablecloth "with so many holes in it that it must have been riddled by a shotgun." But no one needed to go away hungry from the meal-bamboo sprouts, fish, large bowls of glutinous rice, tiny cubes of dried smoked water buffalo, eggs fried with garlic, cucumbers, oranges and pineapple. After flying low across the embattled countryside with Kong Le, McCulloch wrote: "Laos is one of the loveliest lands on earth, and it is a bitter travesty that such a land and the gentle people who inhabit it should be caught up in a war they are ill prepared...