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...result was a bad crop two years in a row, with grain production in 1959 and 1960 running at about 190 million tons, v. a 1960 goal of 297 million. As a cornerstone of the plan for 1961, Peking called for a purge of what it called "landlord and bourgeois elements" who "have not yet been sufficiently remolded." Tacitly conceding that private incentives were necessary, China's planners fell back on what they call the "socialist society's principles of more income for more work." Commune workers would be allowed to raise private pigs and vegetables, were granted...
...immediate problem was finding reasons why Soviet agriculture had not lived up to his 1957 promises to overtake the U.S. in per capita production of grain, meat and milk by this year. Even by the Russians' own figures, the 1960 output was nothing to boast about: grain, 131 million tons (U.S. total: 176 million tons); meat, 8,725,000 tons (U.S.: 12.8 million tons). Khrushchev blamed all on his hapless underlings in the field, and the press spread his charges far and wide. "There," roared the boss, "sits [Nikifor] Kalchenko, member of the Central Committee, member of the Supreme...
...stockpiled food reserves in anticipation of their bitter winters. But immediately after the uprising, the Chinese confiscated all the cereal and vegetable foods in all the villages under their control and made an inventory of all sheep, cattle and yaks. Politically docile Tibetans were doled out 25 Ibs. of grain a month; less trusted Tibetans got only 17. In most cases the ration consisted of wheat and barley husks rather than the grain itself, or of poor-quality grain usually fed only to animals...
Since Red China was hit by crop failures, the Chinese have begun to slaughter sheep and yak herds for meat, forbade farmers to shear their sheep without permission or to eat animals that died of natural causes. Food rations have been cut to 16 Ibs. of grain per person a month. In many villages, the refugees reported, Tibetans have been reduced to eating grass weeds and wild tubers. Estimated deaths due to Tibet's enforced starvation diet...
...Decatur Howe, 74, Massachusetts-born engineer who for 22 years was a perennial fixture in Canada's Liberal Cabinets; of a heart attack; in Montreal. On graduating from M.I.T. in 1907, Howe took a teaching offer in Halifax. At 40 he was a millionaire as a builder of grain elevators, docks, bridges and buildings. In 1935 Prime Minister Mackenzie King got "C.D." to run for Parliament and, on Howe's election, installed him in the Cabinet. In his public service years, Howe reorganized railroads, assembled the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., founded Trans-Canada Air Lines, bossed Canada...