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Beer & Cyanide. The Biafrans have little left to eat except fruit and their customary yams and cassavas-and even these starchy staples are becoming scarcer. Unable to ship in supplies, they have for months virtually had to do without the protein-rich dried fish, beef and milk that before the war they bought outside the region. More important, the Biafrans have been driven from their richest croplands. Farming has been utterly disrupted by the war and, now that the rainy season has come, there will be almost nothing to harvest for weeks...
...fiscal year ending this June. Unless taxes are increased fairly soon and sharply, the Government will pull $17 billion more out of the capital market in the first six months of 1968 than in the first half of 1967. In consequence, capital is likely to become still costlier and scarcer; money tightness has already begun to crimp construction...
What dealt a death blow to the mestizo tradition was the introduction of cheap chrome lithographs in the 19th century. At the same time, as silver became scarcer and more expensive, the lower classes increasingly turned to chinaware and crockery. Early mestizo art became a collector's item, disappeared into wealthy homes, or was guarded by churches and convents. Many objects in the Smithsonian exhibition are being loaned for the first time in centuries. After the Metropolitan's showing, the exhibition will be put on view in Lima, enabling Peruvians to rediscover the full range of their forefathers...
...least a decade, the nuclear-weapon and missile-development programs have been top-priority items for Peking, and are generously supplied with scarce capital equipment and even scarcer trained manpower. China is rich in the raw materials of the nuclear age, even used to export uranium ore to Russia before the ideological split in 1960. Its gaseous-diffusion plant at Lanchow is estimated to turn out enough U-235 to build some 20 bombs a year, and Peking now has as many as 80 bombs of various kinds in various stages of development. That rate will likely soar sharply...
Restraining Both Sides. Many of the Canton tales seem beyond belief-and they probably are. Reliable eyewitnesses are scarcer than dragon's teeth, and, unaccountably, no one has come out of China with a single picture documenting the mass scenes of violence, bodies hanging from trees and tanks firing in the streets. In fact, a Japanese journalist who recently spent a night or two in Canton neither saw violence nor heard shooting. The total number of deaths and the luridness of detail seem to grow as they are passed from traveler to traveler...