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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonpoisonous snake," he advised, "pick him up and put him in your shirt. If you find yourself without food, pull him out and eat him." A poisonous snake can also be eaten, said Weaver, "if you cut his head off just below the poison sacs." Pointing out that rattlesnake meat is "considered a great delicacy" (it sells for 350 an ounce), Weaver assured his gagging audience: "Snakes are about the sweetest, tenderest meat you'll find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Renaissance in the Ranks | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...quite so funny were the new economic sanctions that Wilson slapped on Rhodesia. In addition to the embargo on Rhodesian tobacco and sugar (the nation's major crops), Britain also banned imports of asbestos (a $30 million export item last year), copper, lithium, chrome, iron, steel and meat. That made the embargo 95% complete. Simultaneously, Wilson ordered a halt to interest payments, dividends and pensions from Britain to Rhodesian residents, thus damming a flow of income that totaled some $25 million last year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British postage. If Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: Some Planes Arrive | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...others coming out of Cuba. What was interesting was the talk of growing shortages, as Castro's grey little island sinks deeper into economic chaos. "Anything that breaks remains broken," said a Havana clinic worker. "Anything that becomes useless remains useless." Supplies of clothing, shoes, medicine, meat are diminishing. Even coffee is declining; production this year will be only 25,000 tons, nearly 40% less than the pre-Castro average. What there is fetches a handsome price on a black market that is growing so big that Castro himself recently fumed: "There are some officials who use their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Exodus by Air | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...When you're dealing with a current event like sudden changes in Africa, you have to displace it enough to turn it into a myth. When you show people the Africans with the meat in their hands, the audience is too uncomfortable...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Kopit Criticizes New York Theatre, Discusses Current Events in Dramo | 12/8/1965 | See Source »

...future. But the regime is growing more benign, and Paraguayans are beginning to know a little prosperity. Attracted by rocklike stability (the guarani at 126 to the dollar has not budged in five years), foreign investment has increased steadily. U.S. firms have spent more than $25 million to build meat-packing plants, a bottled-gas facility, a hydroelectric station and an oil refinery. Last year, exports (mainly beef, lumber and cotton) earned $50 million, 23% more than 1963, and this year may rise another 10%. Some $27 million in Alianza aid has gone into agricultural, educational and communications projects, helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alianza: Three on the Go | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

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