Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced aim of the twin offensive is to root out and destroy enemy base camps, storage areas, and supplies. More than 240 weapons and 120,000 pounds of rice had been seized thus...
Dead Orange. Besides the lectures, Earth Day planners scheduled stunts to dramatize various aspects of the environmental crisis. As a warning of impending famine caused by the world's rising population, San Fernando State College students were organized to prepare tea and rice to give people a taste of a "hunger diet." Students at several other colleges and schools were ready to collect bottles and aluminum cans cluttering the landscape-and then to conduct "dump-ins" on the steps of city halls or manufacturers' plants...
...other things will be painted. All sorts of playthings (balls, balloons, Frisbees, etc.) should be brought and played with. There will be plenty (hopefully) of food to be shared-East House at Radeliffe has offered its kitchen and some money for bread-baking, and the people at the new rice and vegetable restaurant at 1419 Cambridge Street will be helping with the cooking, (Bring your favorite recipe.) Mainly, people will be there to celebrate Life and the Earth...
...ranches are raising livestock with all the modern techniques, then "Cuba" goes listed as "exporting cattle." But not because there was a true surplus. Few Cubans ate that beef-it all went to the profitable export trade. Senores Magarolas, also, neglect to mention the fact that Cuba was importing rice, eggs, vegetable oils, tomatoes, potatoes, beans-plus cornflakes and Coke. Cuba's sugar plantations had among the lowest yield in the world; there were no technological innovations since the 18th century. (Migrant laborers who work a 14-hour day are after all cheaper to exploit than machines.) Half the sugar...
What counts is that, since 1959, Cuba has produced more citrus fruit (for domestic consumption as well as for export) than in her previous 200 years of existence, that Cuba will become self-sufficient in rice and other vegetables during this decade, that the once-non-existent fishing industry is growing fast, that children get free milk, that everyone has enough, that blacks and women have jobs. In view of all this, how can the Magarolas say that the 10 million tons are "monoculture"? The sugar curplus will bring Cuba some badly needed agricultural machines...