Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even without a hunger strike, East Germans are barely getting enough to eat. Their faces tend to look grey because of the lack of citrus and other fresh fruits (the average consumer gets fewer than five oranges a year). With the exception of bread, meal, some baked products and margarine, most foods are rationed. In Saxony, for example, each person's theoretical weekly allowance is one-half pound of meat, two eggs, one-half pound of hard sausage, and about six ounces of butter. The favorite strategy for buying up unrationed goods in short supply is to dispatch every...
...project and promised repeatedly that construction would start in no time. Then, last summer, the indignant townsfolk discovered that they had been hoodwinked: the funds allot ted for their dam had been spent elsewhere. To protest their scurvy treatment, nearly 200 townsfolk joined in a 24-hour hunger strike last week...
Roccamena's protest attracted major attention when it was joined by Danilo Dolci, a famed crusader and author who has staged five previous hunger strikes to prod the government into doing more to alleviate Sicily's poverty. Dolci's announcement that he would fast for ten days rallied support from leading Italian intellectuals, would-be intellectuals and influential admirers all over the world. After Dolci had gone nine days without food in a flyblown little room off the Piazza Matrice, the town square, a Christian Democrat bigwig from Palermo announced to the crowds that the government would...
...Mounties (who now number 8,500) are actually Canada's G-men, T-men, Secret Servicemen, revenue, post office and counter-intelligence agents all rolled into one. McClellan himself never served in the frozen Yukon; he spent his years tracking down moonshiners in Alberta, battling the violent hunger marches of the Depression '30s and ferreting out Communist spies in the '40s. When Russian Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in 1945 ready to tell about the Red spy ring, McClellan was the man who took him into protective custody. The Mounties cracked...
This time it was a struggle between Algerians. On one side stood President Ahmed ben Bella, whose Socialist dictatorship has so far brought his country little beyond unemployment and hunger. On the other side were 1,000,000 dissident Berbers, led by two of Ben Bella's wartime comrades whose ide ology is vague, but who oppose his ruthless power drive and his economically disastrous rule...