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...citizens' complaints about food shortages and poor housing. "Before Dec. 18 there was nothing in the shops," said a Kazakh. "There were shortages of meat, milk, cheese, everything. But in three days, suddenly, the shops were full." A special effort was made to provide adequate supplies of good-quality mutton, beloved by the Kazakhs, who do not eat pork because of Muslim dietary rules...
...honor the visit of neighbor Master of Eliot House Alan E. Heimert '49, Kirkland will serve 1636-era fare at its dinner Wednesday evening. The menu will feature apple fritters, roast turkey and boiled mutton...
...braised in France's fashionable ! restaurants) drew a protracted silence. "No one seems able to answer our requests," said the importer. Simultaneously, authorities in France's southwestern Pacific territory, New Caledonia, began rejecting other foodstuffs from New Zealand, including 500 tons of potatoes and 60 tons of beef and mutton...
...looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade Habré ate from the same plate with us when he came to visit," the commander says...
...those supplies are invariably meager: they include few basic protein items, no more than ten eggs per person each month, and only 3 lbs. of meat each fortnight for a family of five. Thus, people are left with no alternative but the black market, where a pound of mutton sells for $15 and a pound of premium imported tea for more than $150. Sometimes 150 people will line up just to buy oranges. For the average factory worker, who takes home $450 a month, luxuries are even more unthinkable: a pair of jeans can fetch as much...