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...long and lonely meditations. Still another prison saint was Dick Rogers, a former British soldier. An alcoholic, he proved to be virtually the only man who could be trusted to guard the communal food store without stealing anything for himself. Nonetheless, writes Gilkey, "Many a pious diner, whose ration of food depended on Dick's strength of character, still thought of him as immoral because he drank...
...tales of the journey. Marchers carry 70-lb. packs up 40° slopes, cope with insects, snakes, mud, hunger, disease and even, occasionally, the attacks of wild animals. "Five of the men have died of malaria," observed one diarist. "Food situation getting critical," noted another, "will have to cut ration below 500 grams. The word tonight is that there is no rice stored at the next two stations." And once Giap's men arrive, he must keep them supplied by the same tortuous, 800-mile route. Every pair of 81-mm. mortar rounds fired by Giap...
Though shortages could be largely alleviated by proper management of food distribution, the government has barely begun that task. In Kerala, where the food shortage has struck hardest because its 19 million inhabitants shun all grains except rice as "foreign food," people must now subsist on a daily rice ration of only 5 ounces. The Keralans have been rioting on and off for three weeks in protest, and last week the rioting spread to other rice-short parts of India. A 15-year-old student died of gunshot wounds after police fired on a mob attacking a police station near...
Castro upset these calculations by criticizing Red China for cutting its rice shipments to Cuba, thus reducing the average Cuban's monthly rice ration from six to three pounds. Peking's parsimony did not sit well with delegates from other hungry, have-not countries. Meanwhile, the Soviets adroitly outflanked the Chinese with a pledge to support wars of liberation in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala. Moscow handed out $3,000,000 to Latin American delegates, and even promised Russian advisers for a worldwide "liberation committee...
...pledge to surrender my rice ration for the people of Kerala. I also pledge not to eat or serve rice until the food situation there is normal." That was Indira Gandhi's way of showing her sympathy last week for the plight of South India's most populous state...