Word: rice
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...border, the Communists have been carving a huge new sanctuary area out of the midsection of Indochina. They have taken control of Cambodia's four northeastern provinces and the Bolovens Plateau in the southern Laotian panhandle. In the process, the Communists have gained access to large supplies of rice, fish and cattle, and last week's attacks on Kompong Thom and Skoun, two strategic cities north of Phnom-Penh, showed that they are intent on securing continued control of these new havens. They also now command a riverine supply route on the Mekong that stretches...
...protein they contain. In a scale of 900, only three products rated as high as 700. The three: Kellogg's Product 19 and General Mills' Kaboom and Total. Two-thirds of the cereals ranked below 100. Among them were the five bestsellers: Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Sugar Frosted Flakes, and General Mills' Cheerios and Wheaties ("Breakfast of Champions"). Nabisco's Shredded Wheat ranked last...
Back in Saigon, the Congressmen produced statements from five former inmates, all students imprisoned as suspected Communists after antigovernment demonstrations. The students told of being beaten, urinated on from above by guards and fed rice mixed with sand. One of the students said they were so thirsty "we would all urinate in a bucket, then divide it up and drink it," and so hungry they snared lizards and beetles that strayed into their cages and "ate them alive, biting off and sharing pieces." Congressional colleagues of Anderson and Hawkins were not happy about the trip to Con Son, however...
Five years ago, the Philippines imported 1,000,000 tons of rice annually. Today the country is not only self-sufficient but will soon begin exporting rice. Since the introduction of high-yield grains in West Pakistan, that country has increased wheat production by 171% and rice production by 162%. Just in the last two years, India's wheat production rose 50%, and Ceylon's rice crop increased 34%. In Mexico, wheat yields have grown from 500 lbs. per acre in 1950 to 2,300 Ibs. Japan, long an importer of rice, now has such a huge surplus...
...Green Revolution is also compelling countries that have long produced grain surpluses-including the U.S.-to re-examine their own agricultural policies. As rice-rich Thailand has already discovered, the markets for rice are rapidly disappearing, while many wheat-importing countries may soon be producing surpluses of their own. The fact that Washington may eventually have to readjust acreage allotments and agricultural subsidies as a result...