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...country's foreign exchange earnings, mostly derived from exports of timber, tin and hydroelectric power, total no more than $15 million annually. In a normal year, the government has to spend that amount to buy the 50,000 tons of rice it needs to supplement Laos' lagging grain production. With practically no industry (except for small soap, match and textile plants), most manufactured articles, from fertilizer to earth-moving equipment, must be imported...
Laos' economic plight has been complicated by natural disasters. During the summer planting this year a severe drought caused a shortfall of roughly 100,000 tons of food grain-10% of the hoped-for harvest. When the rains finally came, the Mekong and Sedone rivers deluged 30% to 40% of the rice land in Champassak, Savannakhet and Khammouane provinces...
...analysis is similar concerning food. The processing and packaging middlemen take three-fifths of the consumer dollar. Giant agribusiness is forcing out the family farm. Farmers leave land fallow while people starve. The government needs to break down the monopolization of the food sector, encourage production, establish grain and other reserves to assure a steady supply, and provide mechanisms for distributing the surplus to the world. Then prices would stabilize...
Still, Go Tell the Spartans is, within its limits, an earnest and honest little picture that goes against the escapist grain of movies at this moment. The gesture is probably as futile, commercially, as defending Muc Wa was militarily, but you have to applaud the bravery of the effort and issue some kind of citation to a film that, all told, celebrates unconsciously honorable conduct by individuals enlisted in a bad cause. And offers a lot of good acting in the supporting roles too. -Richard Schickel
...right back in the game. After Dave Kinney fielded the kick-off at the 27-yd, line, Brown called "aces left, full loose 27 veer pick crack on the quick count" in the huddle. Wayne Moore took the hand-off, accelerated around right end, cut back against the grain, dodged several tacklers, and then gambolled 83 yards to the endzone to the Crimson to within two points, 14-12. Harvard tried to knot the score with a two-point conversion of its own, but failed when Brown rolled right and lateraled to Moore who was stopped short of the goal...