Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cleared 3,000 rupees ($410) over and above the cost of supporting his family. "In my village there aren't enough people left to make a good funeral," he says. "Maybe there are 100, and they are mostly old. The schools and factories are closed. There are relief projects, but in some areas they have stopped because there isn't even enough drinking water. You might get work once every 15 days." Thanage gave his four bullocks, two buffaloes, two cows and a few goats to the Belapur sugar factory, which feeds them crushed sugar cane as fodder...
...earth tells the story, the government has provided aid. Special cattle farms are being opened, drinking water is being hauled in, and fodder is being brought in from neighboring states. Even so, 25% of the domestic animals are not expected to survive until spring. Workers given jobs on relief projects have been putting in long stretches with inadequate food. The prospects are that things will get worse before they get better. "The real problem will come in February or March with the hot sun and high temperatures," says S.O. Raje, a district official in Poona. Adds G.B. Joshi...
When Henry Kissinger left Paris last week, ending his third round of talks with Chief North Vietnamese Negotiator Le Due Tho, the Paris press corps heaved a collective sigh of relief. "My desire for an agreement," said CBS Bureau Chief Peter Kalisher just before the negotiations adjourned, "is topped only by my desire for Kissinger to go home so I can get some sleep...
...first symptom is a slight trembling of the shoulders. Then comes a weakness in the legs, then a sweating of the palms. Chills, fever, even nausea sometimes follow. Some victims regularly employ mild doses of alcohol for temporary relief. The more imaginative resort to yoga and hypnosis. Whatever the antidote, the common malady known as stage fright is accepted far and wide as a natural part of the performing experience...
...Some relief may be on the way. Next week, a seven-man committee of judicial experts, appointed by Burger and chaired by Harvard Law Professor Paul Freund, will formally propose that Congress create a new nine-judge court composed of judges chosen on a rotating basis from the U.S. Courts of Appeals. That court would screen all cases now referred to the Supreme Court for review, and determine which were important enough for the high bench to hear. If the Freund committee proposals are accepted by Congress and the President, the Supreme Court Justices would still have the right...