Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kushtia, a quiet town in the rice-growing district near the broad Ganges, fell into a restless sleep on the night of March 25. Without warning, 13 Jeeps and trucks came to a halt outside Kushtia's police station. It was 10:30 on the night the war broke out. Delta Company of the 27th Baluch Regiment had arrived from its base at Jessore cantonment 60 miles to the south. The 147 men of the company quickly disarmed some 500 Bengali policemen without meeting any resistance and then occupied four additional key points: the district police headquarters, the government...
...been outlawed in Canada, Cyprus, Sweden, Hungary and Norway. Last week Japan followed suit. The Japanese ban includes not only DDT, which Japanese farmers use mainly on fruit trees, but also BHC, a pesticide that is widely credited with making Japan a self-sufficient rice producer. "We're still in the dark on what residual BHC and DDT will do to the human system," says Dr. Hideo Fukuda of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. "But we've decided that it is wise to ban them sooner rather than later...
...ARVN dead, but unofficial estimates put the toll closer to 2,000 crack troops dead or missing and another 4,000 wounded. Compared with Cambodia, Lam Son has so far yielded only one-fourth as many captured enemy weapons, one-half as much ammunition, one-fifth as much rice and about the same number of enemy dead-at a cost of about seven times as many ARVN troops dead...
...move last summer, he ignored established regulations requiring the submission of detailed plans both for the movement and for the economic and social welfare of the relocated population. Without prior planning, these sources say, Dzu began the move during the Autumn harvest season, leaving relocated hamlets without their rice supply for the remainder of the year. He stopped the relocation until the end of the harvest only in October after Deputy Director of CORDS for Region II, Edward T. Long, wrote a personal letter to Dzu requesting the postponement...
...Darlac Province, the lack of planning resulted in heavy losses of livestock, rice, and other valuable possessions in the process of moving to the relocation sites, according to one official who has interviewed the relocated Montagnards. Only a fraction of the water buffalo, cattle and other animals could be brought with the people, because of the hurried moves by truck and U. S. Chinook helicopters. Virtually all the hardwood furniture found in Montagnard long-houses had to be left behind. Cattle and ceremonial gongs were stolen by ARVN troops and later sold in a nearby Vietnamese market town...