Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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India suffered more than any other nation. Its oil import costs hit $1.6 billion, up fivefold in two years, leaving it little money to import food and fertilizer, machines and medicine for its hungering millions. Pakistan's plight was almost as critical; its imports of oil and fertilizer topped $355 million. Sri Lanka's rice farmers had to pay 375% more for fertilizer; they reduced their buying so much that the rice harvest fell almost 40% below expectations...
Secret Service agents could have immediately mowed down the intruder. But the President and his family were off in Colorado, and the gate-crasher was making no threats. All he wanted was to speak to the ambassador from Pakistan. So the guards waited patiently for four hours while the intruder delivered an unintelligible harangue. When Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub Khan failed to appear, the stranger asked the Secret Service to broadcast his demand for a meeting. The guards complied, and the man listened to the message on his car radio. Then he plucked a white cloth from his pocket...
Some of the discussions' contents were a little different from those of more official gatherings, too. No one said it had been wrong for China to support Pakistan during Bangladesh's war of independence, for example, but no one said it had been right either. When I asked about the leading cadres we'd been meeting, someone said, "They are a phenomenon of China." Someone else said, "They probably feel that things are too complicated, this way they oversimplify." And a third said he was production leader on his commune and if we'd come to a formal meeting there...
...world's top food experts. "We will see increasing troubles, not declining troubles," predicts Dr. John Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. "We will see increasing famine, pestilence, the extermination of large numbers of people. Malthus has already been proved correct." The most vulnerable to such disasters: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Sahel nations, Ethiopia, northeast Brazil, the high regions of the Andes and the poor parts of Mexico and Central America...
During the past two decades, for example, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh cleared Himalayan foothills to make more room for crops. Without the forests, which act as great sponges that sop up and hold rainfall, the water rapidly ran off the slopes. The accelerated runoff caused disastrous floods over the past year. In cleared jungles in Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil, heavy rains quickly leached the nutrients from the thin layer of topsoil, rendering the land infertile within a year or two. (The trees had both anchored and nourished the soil.) In other cleared jungles, the sun burned out the soil...