Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agent Blue, whose use has not been suspended, is a solution of cacodylic acid containing 54% arsenic. In Viet Nam, where it sometimes gets into drinking water, Blue spray is used to kill rice and garden crops at a much greater strength than is considered safe for killing weeds...
...BORTION and population control were the issues that brought on some of the strongest disagreements among the conservatives during a Friday panel discussion. In an earlier speech, Dr. Charles Rice had hit the abortion question hard, and received a standing ovation from his audience for the attack. This government has appointed a commission on population control headed by John D. Rockefeller III. This commission is promoting, for anywhere in the country, abortion on demand...
...only ones plaguing Lon Nol, but they rate high on his list. Last week, for example, the Communists held sway over at least half of the country. The economy is almost as worrying. The inflation rate is currently at least 20%. An expected 50% reduction in rice and rubber exports has helped to drain foreign reserves. The price of rice is rapidly rising, and the next harvest is expected to be 35% lower. The flight of Vietnamese refugees has cost Cambodia its professional fishermen, cutting down the amount of fish available. "Real shortages will begin to develop in the next...
Stalag Diaries. After one dismal lunch of rice with rice, the newsmen formed a committee to help run the hotel. Heading the committee was Michael Adams, a former Middle East correspondent for the Guardian who now heads a pro-Arab lobby in London and who was in Amman to negotiate the release of the hijack hostages. Adams drew on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany to organize the correspondents. Though they included some major byliners from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and other countries, they set about cleaning toilets and performing other menial chores. Los Angeles Timesman...
...continued bombing of Cambodia after the U.S. troops pull out. The plans for Cambodia come from the same drawing board that produced those for Laos. In any case, the U.S. Army found very few NLF soldiers in Parrot's Beak. As they passed through the densely populated rice-producing area-if we can believe the American papers-they razed village after village, thinks that the Red Khmers and theCambodian resistance is not yet as killing only peasants. Maybe Nixon strong as the Laotians and the Vietnamese, and that his policy of intimidation-by-genocide may work there. In any case...