Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tanks and armored half-tracks clattered across the Lebanese border toward guerrilla strongholds. The Israeli troops encountered little resistance at first and quickly entered six villages near the Hasbani River. The soldiers gave villagers leaflets with a pointed verse from an old Arab poem: "Whoever sows thorns will not harvest grapes and whosoever lights fires is likely to get burned...
Stodgy Bachelor. Balaguer, who revised the constitution so that he could seek re-election to a second four-year term, spent the last weeks of the campaign barnstorming the countryside, where he was particularly strong. Though unemployment hovers around 30%, this year's harvest is a good one, assuring Balaguer of continuing strength among the wealthy landowners as well as the peasants, who historically have gone along with "the boss"-the man in power...
...harvest of news each week, much of what TIME'S editors deal with lies quite properly in the realm of the expected: a long-awaited event to be reported and analyzed, a continuing question to be updated and more thoroughly understood. Yet the spice of journalism-for both editors and readers-is the unusual: a fascinating personage, a surprising relationship, a shocking conflict, an unexpected and intriguing proposition. A sampling from this week's issue...
...driven more than one-third of the 85 Coachella Valley table-grape growers out of business; 1,000 of the valley's 7,800 grape-producing acres have been abandoned. The three growers who reached agreement with Chavez last week have 1,100 acres of the remainder, harvest 1% of California's total table grape crop. One of the three, Lionel Steinberg, was guarded about his contract with the UFWOC, which includes a union-shop clause. "I have some concern that it may not be completely workable," he said, "but I am convinced that I will...
...Hugo explained once, "We have no stages for building the new man, as we do for the economy. We do not know at exactly what point we have developed enough to act in new ways, we only know by experiment." The ten million harvest is a culmination of 11 years of economic development, but even more it is a test of 11 years of political development. On one of our first days in the fields I asked Juan whether Cuba would pass that test, whether they would make the ten million, and he said yes, without a doubt. Once...