Word: rice
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Communist Cells. Though the official campaign lasted only a month, the 54-year-old widow toured 120 constituencies and addressed 250 rallies. At every stop, she denounced Senanayake and his United National Party for cutting every citizen's weekly free-rice ration from four to two pounds, for boosting food prices 500%, for trebling unemployment and for causing a 16% increase in the cost of living over the past two years...
...face of that barrage, Senanayake's own figures proved less appealing. By halving the free-rice ration and more than doubling domestic rice production since 1965, he was able to reduce rice imports to less than half of what they had been, thereby saving precious foreign exchange. With a national budget of $500 million, an impressive $90 million goes to maintain free education right through the university level. Statistics aside, Senanayake noted that "her ladyship" and her Freedom Party had formed a United Front coalition with the Trotskyite Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the pro-Moscow Communist Party...
...election swung on rice-bowl issues and the fact that thousands of 18-year-olds were voting for the first time. Predicting that the youths would flock to Sirimavo's leftist banner, one Senanayake supporter complained that giving them the vote was "like giving a monkey a knife to cut its own throat." Senanayake barely retained his own seat. His party's representation in Parliament fell from 71 to 17. With her own party holding an absolute majority and her two Communist-coalition partners winning 25 seats-highest in their histories -Mrs. Bandaranaike can carry out almost...
...tons of captured rice could feed 90,000 troops for 50 days. But much more than that has been captured in each of the last three years with no apparent effect on the enemy...
Cheery "Blue." The three main defoliants, each cheerily known by the color of the band on its container, do their job with convincing efficiency. "Blue" contains arsenic and burns the juices out of narrow-leaf grasses and rice. "White," a mixture of a persistent chemical called Picloram and 2,4-di-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, causes leaves to shower from trees within weeks. Strongest and most heavily used is "Orange," a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-tri-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, whose dangers were widely publicized last winter in a New Yorker article by Thomas Whiteside. Last month...