Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rent controls, brought sugar back to grocery shelves by putting pressure on local speculators, and announced that he would seek to increase exports by increased trade with China. He also introduced a sweeping land-reform decree under which 715,000 tenant farmers occupying 3,700,000 acres of rice and corn lands will become owners of family farms of 12½ acres each...
...fact that helped rather than hurt the negotiations. Comments one American official: "His authority makes him easier to deal with. The others are incapable of making decisions." For three years the two have been meeting in a small villa outside of Paris, sipping tea and munching rice cookies while they traded demands, nuances and -more recently-concessions...
...around the capital, and they draw closer every day. Reports TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand: "Watching the action on Highway 13 to the north of Saigon is like watching mortar rounds being walked in on a position. Each day, when one drives up the highway through the flat open rice fields, progress is stopped closer to Saigon." The going on Route 1 is just as tough. The elite 81st Special Airborne Ranger Brigade, which helped save An Loc and recapture Quang Tri, is being tied down clearing areas only 16 miles from Saigon...
...Eagleton's home state of Missouri vented its rice against McGovern, giving its 12 electoral votes to the President. Nixon carried the state with 59 per cent of the vote, pulling GOP gubernatorial hopeful Christopher Bond along with him with 56 per cent...
Economic need will probably force the North to seek some form of cooperation with the South. Hanoi now relies on China for its rice, and that is a position of dependence that the Vietnamese have struggled for centuries to avoid. It would be tempting for the Northerners to import from the rice bowl in the South...