Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, that have not been previously cultivated or had been destroyed by American bombs. Teams of volunteers accompany returning peasants into these areas to clear out unexploded mines and set up irrigation systems. Each family that goes back receives a home and land for a garden and rice paddy and is given spending money until it can support itself, farm implements, and medical and technical advice...
...found reconstruction easy. In the first months after liberation, South Vietnam experienced a severe rice shortage, as the last violent months of the war disrupted planting in most of the central provinces. By the time Thieu's government fell, almost 2 per cent of the population in those provinces was dying of starvation each month. During the first three months of the PRG's government, the North Vietnamese sent 70 per cent of their rice stock south to give the new government a breathing space. But entrepeneurs were able to hoard the rice, which the PRG sold at half price...
...goods. Since American aid stopped, many of the country's industries have run down, and there are an estimated 1 million unemployed. Thanks to a bumper crop in the Mekong Delta (plus some imports from the North) the government has been able to supply ample rice at low prices. But most canned goods are now beyond the reach of ordinary people. Gasoline for Saigon's swarms of Hondas is officially rationed, but it can be obtained easily on the open market for about twice the rationed price, which...
...Washington to testify at Senate hearings that resembled a TV quiz show. ("What do we have for the witnessess, Johnnie?" "Well, for the ladies, from Speidel, the latest in watch-bands...") The refugees were then taken in by upholstered Georgetown matrons, shown off at dinner parties and fed Minute Rice. To research that series, Trudeau not only followed press accounts of the refugee influx, but also read the staff report to Edward M. Kennedy's Senate Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees. "He does his homework," says Playboy Cartoon Editor Michelle Urry. "Garry's on of the few intellectuals...
...cliffside home overlooking the Hudson River located near the town of Nyack, N.Y., Aronson's study is filled with hundreds of sketches for the show. Each one is intricately painted. Some, including half a dozen potential stage curtains, are silk-screened on cotton. Some are done on rice paper, but New York City's fire laws forbid their use in the theater...