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Stymied more by the political turmoil of Mali than the disastrous four-year drought that continues relentlessly in North Africa, the six-man Guggenheim expedition, including Harden N. Wiedemann '75, returned to Cambridge this week...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Mali Mercy Mission Returns; Political Unrest Shortens Trip | 2/9/1974 | See Source »

...situation could get even worse because North America, which is the largest grain exporter, is due for the cyclical drought which occurs approximately every 20 years, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jean Mayer to Chair Nutrition Study, Fears Future Global Food Shortages | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

When the Arab states supposedly closed the valve on all oil shipments to the U.S. in October, Americans faced the prospect of a disastrous fuel drought by year's end. As the new year begins, though, officials are hinting that the embargo has sprung a leak. Now TIME'S Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell has turned up evidence that Arab oil is indeed flowing into island refineries that serve the U.S. and probably into mainland American ports as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPPLY: From Output Squeeze to Price Embargo | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...talent, the lack of alternatives this weekend, and the new club her act is opening this week. Harvard Square music lovers have grown accustomed to trekking into Boston to be ripped off at large music halls on those weekends when Passim could not satisfy their appetities. Perhaps the drought has ended. The Performance Center on the third floor of The Garage, an interesting complex of shops and miscellaneous enterprises on Boylston St., promises some fine music at relatively reasonable prices. Raitt is playing two shows each night through Sunday, offering her usual skillful guitar playing, one of the best white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock and Folk | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

...drought has been going on four years now and it is literally wiping out some of these tribes," Wiedemann said last night. "The tanks we build should help them collect what little rainfall they...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Harvard Student Will Soon Join MIT Mercy Mission to Mali | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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