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...packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy Martin cognac, Wilson tennis racquets and balls, Japanese TVs and calculators. Vietnamese are allowed to receive up to four packages each year from friends or kin abroad. Some families subsist exclusively from the sale of such foreign goods...
Secretary of Agriculture John Block sought to defend the current level of food stamp funding by showing that a family of four could subsist on a $58 allowance for a week. Surrounded by a flock of aides and reporters, he and his wife pushed a cart through their local supermarket picking up provisions recommended by nutritional experts. The millionaire farmer reported that there were only a few minor hitches in living on this allotment for a week: "The family crisis was when the dog ate the biscuits. But that could happen to any family, rich or poor." Critics countered that...
...discontent over the Falklands defeat. As thousands of soldiers trudged home, shocking revelations about the military disaster were spreading across the country. A young army captain, close to tears, described what he called "the betrayal of the people by the military." He said that the marines were compelled to subsist on half-rations in order to share their food with the army, whose soldiers were so short of decent drinking water that "they were forced to drink from muddy pools while senior officers were eating like kings." Said an army major: "We lost because of our high command...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), reform of the Ad Board, or other items of concern to the assembly--Pearl took time off and went to Europe. She "had had it" with Harvard. But she gained a new appreciation for the United States. She met Irish Catholics trying to subsist on the tired soil west of the Shannon River. She slipped a Newsweek to an information hungry Romanian school teacher. A man poured a bucket of Sangria over her head in Pamplona. It was time to come home...
...free gasoline (the current price of $2.77 per gal. includes $1.01 in taxes). Even during a generally triumphant visit to his former constituency in western Burgundy this month, there was an undercurrent of rural dissatisfaction. Said one protest sign along the way: WE WANT TO LIVE, NOT JUST SUBSIST...