Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunger in China...
Congratulations for your straightforward report on hunger in China. Words and pictures continue to haunt-these are people, suffering and enduring...
Says TIME's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow: "This is not merely another catastrophe common in the history of China, such as the northern droughts in the 1870s or the floods and famines of the 1920s, when millions starved. This is, rather, a rationed, regimented hunger that signifies more than China's traditional struggle for survival. It symbolizes the miscarriage of the most massive social experiment ever undertaken-the Communist attempt to transform China overnight from the most impoverished country in the world into a major industrial
...most beautiful words can be written on it." From the start. Mao's new and beautiful words have hammered out two themes : 1) the greatness of Chinese Communism and 2) the West's envious wish to destroy it. Mao systematically adds fear to poverty and hate to hunger...
...Moon. Near the end of the 8th century, the mighty King Jayavarman II founded the first great dynasty of Angkor, and for the next 300 years the Khmers added steadily to their glory. They were prodigious engineers: their moats, canals and reservoirs made the land so fertile that hunger was virtually unknown. One inscription honors a king, not for his conquests but for creating a reservoir "beautiful as the moon, to refresh mankind and to drown the insolence of the other kings...