Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delta does not have, in the strictest sense, a battle front. Long considered the country's most secure region, the Delta is crucial to both sides; more than a third of South Viet Nam's population lives there, and it grows 80% of the country's rice. As the conventional war to the north remained stalemated last week, attention shifted to the south, where Communist guerrillas are still waging what TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch calls "a Graham Greene kind of war, of weak outposts overrun at night, of ambushes and infiltration, of contested villages and safe roads...
...some overrun hamlets, the Communists are imposing a tax of two-thirds on this year's rice crop-up from. 50% a year ago, a trend that apparently indicates growing confidence. "They are trying to reoccupy villages and hamlets where they used to work," says Colonel Duong Hieu Nghia, the Vinh Long province chief. "They are preparing for a ceasefire. They want to be in place if it comes, and ready if it does...
...small comfort, but light fish and rice dishes are the thing here. However unhappy your hosts may be with U.S. policy, they are not likely to retaliate with anything like those 18-course banquets that the Chinese hurled at your diet in Peking...
...great triumphs of modern agriculture is the Green Revolution: the development of lush new strains of wheat, rice and other cereals that have made the difference between starvation and survival for millions of people. Yet a drawback to the new high-yield plants is that they require large quantities of expensive nitrogen-rich fertilizers that drain into ponds and lakes. There, the fertilizers cause explosive growth of algae and make the water unfit for drinking and other uses...
Talley believes that women are particularly acute at picking stocks, partly because "women are always looking for a new product." One company brought out a new kind of rice; Talley immediately bought a package and cooked it in her Park Ave. apartment. She took a fancy to the rice-and the company's stock...