Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America usually means a pretty good press," Sanders said. "They all say 'we got this guy who we think is pro material.' They think he's the best thing since Rice Krispies...
...nightly blackout that was about 75% effective on the second or third day of the fighting now has slipped back to about 60% effective, an indication of general relaxation. There had been rumors of shortages at first, but there is no noticeable lack of essentials. The seasonal foods, rice, sugar and sweets are all in adequate supply. More surprising is the Cairenes' friendly attitude toward foreigners, especially Americans. While the U.S. prestige officially has plunged for resupplying Israel, American companies have not felt it necessary to recommend that their U.S. employees leave the country. Whatever happens, President Sadat...
...doesn't tell the whole story of military aid. Another 6 per cent of American aid goes for an apparently pacific program, purportedly designed to feed the hungry urban poor of South Vietnam. Most of these people were neither hungry nor urban until the war drove them from their rice fields; and many of them would presumably return to the fields if fighting stopped. In the meantime, this is how The Times described the program...
Every bag of rice given by the United States, for example, is paid for by Washington in dollars, then bought by Vietnamese importers in piasters. Eighty per cent of the piasters are then deposited in accounts to be used solely by the South Vietnamese Army, Navy and Air Force. This is known as the Food for Peace program...
...Vietnamese peasants want to go home. But they are prevented from returning to their rice fields by Thieu's police, who restrict travel within the country, and by his army, which keeps the war simmering against...