Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bangla! Jai Bangla!" From the banks of the great Ganges and the broad Brahmaputra, from the emerald rice fields and mustard-colored hills of the countryside, from the countless squares of countless villages came the cry. "Victory to Bengal! Victory to Bengal!" They danced on the roofs of buses and marched down city streets singing their anthem Golden Bengal. They brought the green, red and gold banner of Bengal out of secret hiding places to flutter freely from buildings, while huge pictures of their imprisoned leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, sprang up overnight on trucks, houses and signposts. As Indian troops...
...likely. Their aim, rather, seemed to be to force the Cambodians to move troops back to defend the capital and give up their road-clearing operations, leaving the countryside clear for the collection and movement of supplies. In Kompong Chhnang province northwest of Phnom-Penh, the Communist forces buy rice and fish from farmers at below-market prices, and transport the supplies to combat units by several routes. As long as such routes are open, the Communists are expected to content themselves with harassing government positions and attempting to organize a Cambodian guerrilla force in rural areas...
Park's problems are complicated by severe inflation (the price of rice has soared 25% this year) in the largely agricultural South. Though it has more than twice the North's 14 million inhabitants, the South still lacks the heavy industry that fuels the economy of North Korea...
...tunics, baggy matching trousers and caps straight out of a '20s movie. Style setters for the Beautiful People? Who would believe it? Yet so it seems. Chairman Mao's favorite jacket in particular-and just about anything else Chinese-is selling in Manhattan boutiques this fall like rice cakes at the Spring Festival...
Last week's coup was staged as signs of trouble and unease were growing. The economy is declining as a result of lower U.S. military spending and aid and falling world prices for Thailand's chief exports: tin, rubber and rice. Crime is on the rise, including muggings and rapes. Bangkok has been the scene of a series of strikes, and only two weeks ago of a student riot, caused primarily by interschool rivalries, in which 158 youths were arrested. Rightly or wrongly, many Thais tended to blame the new institutions of democracy for preventing the government from...