Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years with devastating regularity has struck again, sweeping across India from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea and north to the foothills of the Himalayas. Across the vast Deccan Plateau, where 50 million people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough food stocks to ward off mass starvation. But having ample food on hand is only half the battle...
...against the illegal Irish Republican Army for extending its campaign of terrorism from Northern Ireland to the Republic (TIME, Dec. 11). The man who leads the I.R.A.'s militant Provisional wing, Sean MacStiofáin, whom the government apprehended and jailed two weeks ago, remained weak from a hunger strike, though he had begun to accept liquids. In the days before the referendum, the government refrained from taking further action against the I.R.A. leadership...
...power. Nobody was hurt in the takeover; Cruz was simply sent home, where he announced that he had known the coup was coming all along. As Honduras' new President for "not less than five years," López must contend this week with a threatened peasants' hunger march on the capital of Tegucigalpa. After that, he is expected to seek a conciliatory meeting with El Salvador's President Arturo Armando Molina...
...described by his wife Mary as a "dying man." MacStiofáin, boasted Provisional leaders, would become a martyr, like Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork, who was arrested at an I.R.A. meeting in 1920 and died in a British prison in the 74th day of a hunger strike. In MacStiofáin's place, they predicted, "a hundred other MacStiofáins" would rise...
...obvious that at war's end he was considered a pariah by the victorious allies. Spain was refused membership in the new United Nations organization, France for a time closed its borders and halted commerce, and active plans were made to overthrow Franco. Economic crisis and occasionally actual hunger plagued Spaniards. They warmed to Franco for the first time when he told them defiantly: "If the world chooses to turn its back on us, we will go it alone...