Word: malis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some restaurateurs contend that shark may become as popular as Mali-Mali, a dolphin dish that has become a prized delicacy in Hawaii and the West. Miami Entrepreneur William Doherty, who has built a $275,000 trawler-factory to fish for shark, calls it "the product of the future." Its fate will depend largely on the success of the strategy that U.S. restaurateurs are using to overcome the stigma of shark: capitalizing on it. At Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting...
...permanent dole. They have few, if any, easily exploitable resources to sell abroad, and most are seemingly unable to grow enough food to feed themselves. The most notable catastrophe countries are Mali, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and Bangladesh...
...feel that their prestige is determined by the number of shiny new weapons that rumble past the reviewing stand during a military parade. Moreover, disputed borders and the suspicion of seemingly hostile neighbors frequently lead to intense local arms races. This has been the case with India and Pakistan, Mali and Upper Volta, and Peru, Bolivia and Chile...
...Mali and Upper Volta, two of Africa's most impoverished nations, are threatening to go to war. The reason: a claim by Mali to a 100-mile stretch of land in the sub-Sahara now belonging to neighboring Upper Volta. In addition to invaluable water supplies, the disputed land may contain rich deposits of oil, natural gas, manganese and titanium. Although black African leaders have tried to mediate the dispute, troops of the two belligerents have been sniping at one another for the past month, and chances of a full-scale conflict are high...
Nearly half a billion people are suffering from some form of hunger; 10,000 of them die of starvation each week in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There are all too familiar severe shortages of food in the sub-Saharan Sahelian countries of Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta and Niger; also in Ethiopia, northeastern Brazil, India and Bangladesh. India alone needs 8 to 10 million tons of food this year from outside sources, or else as many as 30 million people might starve...