Word: rational
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Though shortages could be largely alleviated by proper management of food distribution, the government has barely begun that task. In Kerala, where the food shortage has struck hardest because its 19 million inhabitants shun all grains except rice as "foreign food," people must now subsist on a daily rice ration of only 5 ounces. The Keralans have been rioting on and off for three weeks in protest, and last week the rioting spread to other rice-short parts of India. A 15-year-old student died of gunshot wounds after police fired on a mob attacking a police station near...
Castro upset these calculations by criticizing Red China for cutting its rice shipments to Cuba, thus reducing the average Cuban's monthly rice ration from six to three pounds. Peking's parsimony did not sit well with delegates from other hungry, have-not countries. Meanwhile, the Soviets adroitly outflanked the Chinese with a pledge to support wars of liberation in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala. Moscow handed out $3,000,000 to Latin American delegates, and even promised Russian advisers for a worldwide "liberation committee...
...pledge to surrender my rice ration for the people of Kerala. I also pledge not to eat or serve rice until the food situation there is normal." That was Indira Gandhi's way of showing her sympathy last week for the plight of South India's most populous state...
...involve unthinkable costs and dangers. Even to defeat the 230,000-man Communist force in the South today would probably require at least one million American troops, according to Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times and several Pentagon officials; most military strategists insist that a 10 to 1 ration manpower is essential for the success of search-and-destroy operations...
...Kerala at once, hoping to calm the crowds as she had done in Madras during last year's language riots. But her advisers persuaded her to give up the idea as too dangerous. Instead, she ordered half the cut to be reinstated, increasing the daily rice ration to about 5 oz. per person. That seemed to satisfy most Keralians, but it could be no more than a temporary solution. Unless fresh supplies can be found, it might well be necessary to cut the ration again...