Word: stave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India's Minister of Food Chidambaram Subramaniam flew into Washington last week on an urgent mission that may mean life or death for thousands of his countrymen. He came to appeal for tons more of U.S. food to help India stave off what threatens to be its worst food crisis in two decades. With Subramaniam came assurances from Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri that India, after years of giving top priority to industrialization, will put more emphasis on agriculture in the new five-year plan that begins in April, and will spend $11 billion for fertilizer, farm machinery, irrigation...
...French view of the Vietnam war isn't strictly anti-American. They just merely think we're stuck with a bad policy that is a stumbling block to the settlement of other international issues. Although some analysts admit that recent American military sucesses may stave off defeat and produce a stalemate, the majority feel that the Viet-cong is going to win. After their own decade of disastrous fighting in Southeast Asia, such pessimism from the French is understandable. And after seeing American strategists in Paris, copying French battle reports, debriefing vetran officers, and reimplementing French battle plans, most French...
China was already reaping rewards. New Delhi claimed the ultimatum was proof positive that Mao Tse-tung and Ayub Khan were plotting the destruction of India. Even so, India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri tried to stave off war by belatedly agreeing to a two-year-old Chinese offer to have a Sino-Indian inspection team decide whether the fortifications were in China or Sikkim. No one had much hope the offer would be accepted...
Such a flood tide of plenty is enough to feed and clothe half the world-and, under the Food for Peace Program, $1.7 billion worth will, in fact, find its way to some 100 million people, provide school lunches for 40 million schoolchildren, help stave off famine and political unrest the world over. The residue, added to the nation's vast stockpile of surplus commodities, will merely compound what urban Americans have long accepted as "the farm mess...
...Congo were regular dues. Not so, said Russia and twelve other members, including France, South Africa and Belgium. Adamant, the U.S. let it be known as last year's General Assembly got under way that she would challenge Russia's right to vote. Result: to stave off a showdown, the Assembly decided not to let anything come to a vote. The U.N. was stymied...