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Contradictory Reports: dark Indian Food Crisis
NEW DELHT!(AP)—You find} Associated Press reporters cruel poverty, malnutrition and who travelled through India for |
disedse in India today. It has ‘three weeks found the situation | been much the same for as long!much as Indian officials are’
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death has been officially re |The Guardian, Charlottetown, Tues., March 15, 1966.11
corded among India’s 480,000,000 people in the current crisis. —
There is concern in New Delhi that many foreign countries are rushing to, India’s aid when In- dia _ itself is on something less than emergency footing
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi pledged riot to eat rice until the rice eaters of thesouth. got fuller rations. There was no wave of similar pledge-taking in India, although fund raising drives were started in the Vati-
as Indians can remember.
. You see no famine or readily apparent sign that star- vation is around the corner.
jnow trying to depict it.
There have been many con- tradictory reports in New Delhi lea the food situation, coupled
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ity of character — the nation needs foreign food but many In- dians are embarrassed to be in the position of having to accept
1,000,000 tons of U.S. wheat comes to India every month.
| But there is no question that there is hunger in India. Many children are underfed. Their 'thin arms and bleary eyes re- veal lurking diseases that thrive ben malnutrition.
"| And there is no question that
India ts in ferment.
From the southern peninsula ito the northwest desert, the po- litical pot is boiling and New Delhi's authority is being ques- tioned. In some areas the banner of revolution flies high.
However, not one starvation
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Communists used. it.
~ and in West European cit- ries. Massive wheat shipments \from the United States serve to jtake the edge..off Mrs.- Gandhi's ‘campaign to make India self- sufficient. Each new commit- ment by Washington is greeted | with relief—and a letdown in |New Delhi. . |FORESEE ATTACKS
The dangers in coming months , appear to be that the Indian government's bureaucratic ma- | chine will not be. able to dis-- tribute fairly the food supplies | jnow available, and that Mrs. | Gandhi's government will come | under. sharp attack: by leftist op- position groups, using food as a | weapon. | A breakdown in food distribu- ‘tion and fresh . political trouble
lalready are evident. in some_ | areas. ‘
South India’s rice eaters re-— fuse to eat unfamiliar American | wheat being rushed to them in | the greatest ‘food lift” world has ever seen.
American officials estimate no . jmore than 30 per cent of the) | available wheat is being purch- | ‘ased in Kerala state. Yet, thou- sands of Keralites have rioted, | smashed trains, battled with po- \lice—on grounds they’ are hun- | gry. c piace | In many “distressed areas,” |there is grain hoarding: sand iblack marketing that the gov- ernment seems powerless to stop. - . Prices are rising in many cit- ies, creating a situation in which low-paid workers living in pov- erty amid relative opulence can see food but cannot afford to buy it.
FOOD DESTROYED
There is, in addition, huge loss | of food grains to birds and ro- dents. Leaky bags and box cars spill uncalculated amounts.
But of all elements in the food crisis that introduced notes of panic in New Delhi earlier this year, none was as important as the eruption of political demon- strations if the south and east.
In the south, Kerala riots were especially bad. But were they riots over food?
“It. is confirmed that rice shortages were only an_incl- dental part of Kerala’s Febru- ary riots.
The Keralites disdained wheat -hecause, as one said, it hurts their stomachs. They were an-
ting their accustomed heavy rice diet—but they were angrier over decades-old poverty, unemploy- ment and what they felt unfair government policies.
And somewhere in every dem- onstration, in every crowd, was
Over the unhappy villages. flut- tered the red banner. Rice was the slogan and the
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| Far: be it from me to foist my views upon an-unwilling public jbut I have had a theory for lo! 'these many years which finds little support among the players |T know.
It is my contention that there's no such animal as a bril- liant bridge player. But: before the brickbats come flying this way, let me explain what, I mean.
Bridge is a game of reason- ing and logic. There are other factors, no doubt, but basically the player who. thinks soundly
is the one who winds up with the dough : . is correct
|’ If a bid ora play
“|be well bid or well played, but,
in a given_situation, then how can.it»be brilliant? A hand may
| from the standpoint of par, that is expected, and the player who meets that expectation deserves no-special credit.
|a—member—ofKerala’s.. strong |". pro - China Communist party.
the re- |.
Mr.-Bassett—said—few—bust-|-
Sometimes a player makes the wrong bid or, play and it | | comes out right: If this player |
_imakes.wrong. bids_or. plays._re- _
|\peatedly, he is working against | jpercentage and the odds_ will
‘eventually catch up with him. | ,
But if his occasional triumph jean be classed as _ brilliance, then I want no part of it. “Take today’s hand. West led a spade which East won with | jthe ace. South playing the king | on ‘it. East naturally assumed | {that the king was a_ singleton, | jand, mindful of dummy’s jack | |of spades, shifted to a club. |South discarded his other spade \later lost a trump trick, and jthus made five hearts,
Had South played the three of spades on the opening lead, East undoubtedly would | ave returned a spade for West to ruff and South would have gone down one. ‘
T admire South's play all tight. East was marked by the bidding with six spades. and a ruff was therefore imminent By dropping the king, South thought ,he might fool. East and thu save a trick — which he did.
| But brilliant? No Southsmade the right play, ,
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Separatist Political Party = Is Being Formed In Quebec
QUEBEC (CP) —, Formation of a new -provincial:,; political party to campaign for the sov- ereignty of Quebec. was an- nounced here. Still name- less and leaderless, its founders are elements of the Québec wing of Le Ralliement des Creditistes and the separa- tist regroupement Nationale.
The move follows weekend conventions of the two parties during which the executives of the two voted onthe alliance. The Union Nationale was ear- lier reported interested the new party, bit party founders said talks with Union Nationale Leader Daniel Johnson proved fruitless. ,
Announcement of the new party was made Sunday at a joint press conference by Lau- rent Legault, former provincial president of the Creditistes, and Regroupement President Dr.
|Rene Jutras, an avowed sep-
aratist. The party will seek what. it described as an_ ‘‘associate
state’’ status for Quebec, under
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which the province would issue its own currency through a bank of Quebec and have abso lute control over credit!-and the money supply : WANTS QUEBEC CONTROL Also in the party s campaign platform for .the next provincial election is absolute control by | Quebec of its immigration. . re- sources, imports and exports, and external. affairs The leaders said the ' party , will field candidates in al! 108 | Quebec ridings in the impend- | ing provincial elections but a! leader will not be selected until | after the elections. ra the “S
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