Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Food and Agriculture Organization, the scientists are striving to conserve the world's largest reservoir of wildlife. Decades of indifference and exploitation have driven some species, such as the cheetah and the wild Somalia ass, to the brink of extinction. Africa's burgeoning population and the land hunger of many citizens in the newly independent nations continue to reduce the territory available for animals...
...follow through on the treaty. By punish, the Russians most probably mean that they would put the old German card back into play to block Bonn's overtures to other East bloc countries. But Brandt is hoping that the Soviet impulse will be offset by Moscow's hunger for West German technology. That may not be a bad calculation. Notes Richard Lowenthal, an expert on Eastern Europe at the Free University of Berlin: "Despite Moscow's increasingly active global role, the Soviets are on the road of decline?not in the military-or political-power sense, but in the economic...
After rising steadily for 25 years, the world fish catch dropped 2% last year, the first decrease in 25 years. The loss represented $160 million. Worse, it suggested that ocean harvesting-one of the great hopes for curbing world hunger-may be endangered by ocean pollution...
...women's groups, lawyers, congressmen, religious leaders, teachers, and even university rectors publicly demanded an end to police brutality and repression. Early in September, a high Saigon court actually refused to try the students because "evidences of guilt are not clear enough." And when the detained students initiated a hunger strike "to the death," a group of mothers (two of them in their seventies) fasted in solidarity with students throughout the country...
...time the workers tried to organize, they earned only public obloquy and a growing list of martyrs. The right to organize was not firmly and finally established until the 1930s, when more than 100 working men and women were killed by police or by company thugs during strikes and hunger marches. The decades since then have been almost unnaturally peaceful. Militancy was submerged during World War II and again during the Korean War. Then, in the late '50s and '60s, wages jumped in reward for fast-rising productivity...