Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...
...cent of the land. A subsistence farmer, who cannot grow enough corn for his family on his one or two acres of land or sell it for a reasonable price in the fluctuating market, must migrate to work on the coffee or cotton plantations--called fincas--at harvest time...
...Arabs, but the West needs Arab oil more than the pre-industrial Arab states need modern manufactures. As for food, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz pointed out last week that the Arabs could readily replace U.S. grain with grain bought from the Soviet Union, which has enjoyed a record harvest this year...
...concentrate on stopping inflationary actions taken by the Government. In the recent past, bureaucratic infighting helped temper prices. Earlier this year, for example, the COLC practically forced Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to allow farmers to expand acreage of several crops. As a result, the U.S. is enjoying a record harvest of food, which should ease the continuing rise in supermarket prices. It is doubtful, however, that an agency without a mandate to blow the whistle on private wage-price behavior could do an effective job -and even within the Government, the President himself would have to make sure that other...
...province of Quang Due, bordering on Cambodia, outnumbered and outgunned Saigon troops are currently locked in a bitter struggle to retake key outposts lost to North Vietnamese units earlier this month. A deadly war of attrition continues in the soggy green Mekong Delta, where the rice is ready for harvest. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott visited both combat zones last week and filed this report...