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...people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough food stocks to ward off mass starvation. But having ample food on hand is only half the battle. There is also the mammoth task of distributing supplies to the needy in remote rural villages-a project in which New Delhi has been less successful. The drought, moreover, has brought in its train a host...
...anticlimactic end to what Perón had hoped would be a return to power after twelve years of exile in Madrid. He had entered Argentina 28 days earlier like a returning folk hero. He exited like a rejected ward heeler, frustrated by the refusal of Argentina's current strongman, Alejandro Lanusse, to rescind an edict requiring presidential candidates to have been in Argentina on Aug. 25 (Lanusse announced last week that he will not be a candidate either). Perón had also been hurt by defections within his own Justicialist Front. Four parties dropped out amidst arguments...
...lunging toward her with a foot-long bolo that he had pulled from his sleeve. She and others on the presentation platform, in a park near the Manila International Airport, grappled with the assailant. Mrs. Marcos was slashed on her arms and hands when she tried to ward off the blows; some tendons were damaged, and the wounds required more than 75 stitches. Several other people were also injured. Although Mrs. Marcos was reported in "safe" condition at week's end after being flown by helicopter to a hospital, President Richard Nixon dispatched a surgeon from California to assist...
...only thing Bok seems sure of is his desire to have the Masters draw up "some thought-out policy" on cohabitation at Harvard, so that he can use it to ward off letters from parents who are worried that he is not acting in loco well enough...
...brawls, eventually arresting dozens of blacks. The dramatic third incident, the most significant though least violent, took place on the flight deck of the carrier Constellation. Charging "calculated racism," 120 black sailors and 12 white shipmates staged a sit-down strike in an effort to confront ship commander J.D. Ward. Ward, a member of the old school of navy discipline, refused even to speak with them. Instead, he called a general muster of all hands, surrounding the demonstrators with thousands of white sailors...