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...crop destruction program is widespread, that cases like that of the Song Re valley are not exceptions, and that the Montagnard people are being systematically destroyed. In Quang Nai and Quang Tin provinces, the food scheduled for destruction in 1970-71 was estimated for the Commission at 14,575 metric tons. That is enough to sustain around 50-70,000 people for a year. The targeted areas of those two provinces are the upland regions where the Montagnards live. The total Montagnard population of those two provinces is just under...
...confusion seems certain for a while, some Britons took comfort last week in the fact that they still have some peculiarities left. Even while saying goodbye to quids and bobs and thrup'ny bits and all that, they still have chains, rods, gills, pecks and chaldrons. M (for Metric) Day will not come before...
...from New Delhi: "Much of the economy's forward thrust has been less the doing of Indira's government than a benevolent rain god who has given India four consecutive excellent harvests since the drought years. This year's food crop will be around 106 million metric tons, the best ever." From Mrs. Gandhi's point of view, that is good reason to hold elections now-before the rain god has a chance to turn malevolent...
...proposed that sympathizers buy supermarkets in the major Bolivian cities to insure the guerrillas a source of food and profit. Wrote Che: "A truck rolling anywhere along the desolate Bolivian roads could unload five or ten metric tons of supplies for a guerrilla column without arousing the slightest suspicion...
...past 100 years, the amount of food taken from the sea has multiplied more than tenfold, a rate in excess of global population growth. But the annual world catch-now about 60 million metric tons-cannot continue growing indefinitely. In fact, such sea staples as California sardines, Northwest Pacific salmon and Barents Sea cod -not to mention the beleaguered whale -are already rapidly dwindling. Contrary to the myth, Fisheries Biologist William Ricker recently warned, in a National Academy of Sciences report, the sea is not "a limitless reservoir of food energy...