Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What had driven Washington and Hanoi so close to a final agreement after so many years of stalemate? One big factor was the U.S.'s new relationships with Moscow and Peking, which no longer find it in their interests to duel with Washington over a scrap of Southeast Asian rice land. Nixon believes that his decision to resume full-scale bombing of North Viet Nam and mine its harbors was also "very, very important." It is hard to measure how badly Hanoi has been hurt by these measures. But it seems undeniable that the failure of Moscow and Peking...
South Viet Nam's real potential for future prosperity rests on its farms. Agriculturally, it is one of Asia's most fertile countries, and despite the ruin of many farm areas, the green revolution brought about by fast-growing "miracle rice" enabled South Vietnamese farmers to harvest a crop last year that was 25% greater than in 1965?although 10% fewer acres were cultivated...
Students at the University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, and the University of Houston are about evenly divided between Nixon and McGovern, with, perhaps, a slight edge for the South Dakotan. These colleges however have the highest proportions of students from out-of-state and students from urban areas. There are a good many small town colleges in Texas and Texas students generally hike their parents seem to be a great deal more conservative than their contemporaries in other parts of the country. It is doubtful that Nixon will slaughter Mcgovern on the campuses," as Clark predicted...
...mother when he was 13, as the first noticed his strange table manners and unique eating technique. (Never caused Steve any embarassment outside the home until last year when he attended the Big Green's Hall of Fame Dinner in Hanover and he attempted to snatch up some rice pilaf from his plate. For the first time he could remember since junior high his grazing ability failed and he ended up with a snout full of red and white tablecloth. Not wishing to attract attention. Steve continued to munch away until he got to a hem he looked...
...tall noble Anglo-Saxons who emanated all the confidence of surgeons to their patients. The next day they would be issued green fatigues and flown around by daredevil helicopter pilots to spend (but for the air trip) an unalterably boring day visiting hamlets with pig farms, maternity clinics, 'miracle rice' plots, and children washed, scrubbed and smiling, lining the streets and waving GVN flags... The VIPs would return to announce that progress was being made. How could they deny it? The confidence of the mission officials was so pure...