Word: drought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severe are the shortages that a standard joke in Rangoon, which averages 100 inches of rain a year, is that if the government decided to nationalize water, there would be a drought. Rice exports continue to decline, dropping from 1,800,000 tons in 1962 to an expected 600,000 tons this year...
...proclaim TEN MILLION IN '70-a reminder that Fidel Castro is counting on an unprecedented harvest of 10 million tons of sugar next year. What makes that goal remarkable is that this year's crop will probably total no more than 4,500,000 tons. Nonetheless, despite drought, shoddy Soviet machinery and Cuba's inefficient armies of "volunteer" cane cutters, the Maximum Leader is confident of success. And why not? To achieve his target, Fidel is stretching the calendar...
Chris Papagianis took a pass from left wing Demetrio Mena two minutes later and powered the ball past the Blue goalie to end a personal scoring drought. Auritt tacked on the fourth tally with three minutes left to play when he slid into the Andover goal with the ball and a Blue fullback after receiving a cross from Mena...
...scuffle at Las Anod, a remote settlement in the nomadic grazing lands of the north. Last week Las Anod's bloody reputation was reinforced. As President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, 49, stepped from his car in Las Anod on the last stop of a ten-day tour of the drought-stricken north, he was shot dead by a 22-year-old policeman, who then quietly surrendered...
Only Latin America fell behind seriously last year; drought caused a drop of 2% in food output, while population increased by 2%. Developing countries in Africa increased farm production by 2%, while population went up an estimated 2.5%. By contrast, the food-shy developing countries in Asia, where ancient methods of farming are gradually giving way to more efficient cultivation of high-yield strains of rice and wheat, increased their food pro duction by 5% for the second year in a row. The biggest gains were made by Malaysia (11%) and Thailand (8%). In the Western world, the U.S., Canada...