Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vietnam became for us a symbol, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed almost superhuman, courageous and cooperative. Socialist Men and Women in the rice field and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
...victory has been won, since for the first time in 115 years no foreign troops occupy Viet Nam. Now the revolution must be carried forward by political rather than military means. One Communist directive urges its cadres to work harder at building the economic and political infrastructure by growing rice and making villages self-sufficient. In some areas, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops spend at least half of each day planting crops and cutting wood...
Slim green poplar saplings line the dirt road to the Hsuan Wu May Seventh Cadre School, 30 miles from Peking along the banks of the Tsao Pai River. Orchards of apples, pears and peaches are neatly marked off, surrounded by a fresh red brick wall. Rice shoots are be ginning to sprout in well-irrigated fields, and the hogs are fattening. It seems like a typical commune, except that the farm hands are all from the city - 200 schoolteachers, office workers and party cadres who have gone off to the countryside for six months of consciousness raising, Chinese style...
...main, therapy and self-knowledge come from physical labor. Chao says that he is bone-tired after a day weeding or planting rice, but he has found a new meaning to work. Adds Wang Tien-san, 44, head of the school's revolutionary committee: "By doing physical labor, we maintain the true feeling of the laboring people...
...outlook for other yields is far less rosy. Cold weather and rain have destroyed much of Georgia's peach crop, and the prospects for rice and Midwestern apples are glum. Last week Farmer Morris Moeckly looked over his rain-swamped land near Polk City, Iowa, and wryly wondered if his biggest crop this year might be fish. About 60 of his 450 acres are still under water, and Moeckly noted, "It will be much too late to plant corn in there...