Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harvests in the mid-1970s. At the moment, Soviet ports and storage areas are crammed with grain, so any embargo would not be felt for a few months. When the grain runs out, the herds would again be slaughtered to feed people. Toward the end of 1980, a meat shortage would finally develop. But that would simply mean belt-tightening for Soviet citizens -a familiar enough deprivation under Communist rule. If the embargo were sustained for a long period, more severe suffering could occur. But Carter has always been reluctant to use food as that direct a weapon...
...philosophy that Hamid Enayat of Oxford sums up in this manner: "The country should be content with a simple way of life. His ascetic example should be the standard for all Iran." Says an American scholar: "He has an earthy sense of justice. He is for private property, cheap'meat and electricity and plenty of water. That makes him an Iranian populist. He has a George Wallace sense of how people think...
...different spellings have it?is his first or second spouse. Almost all Western translations of his basic prerevolutionary teachings are of doubtful authenticity or accuracy. In particular, a howlingly funny French translation of some of his remarks?dealing with, among other things, the proper attitude of Muslims toward the meat of a camel that has been sodomized?is composed of random pronouncements from a thick book, deliberately excerpted out of context to make the Ayatullah look ridiculous...