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To: Eclectus who wrote (83675)	3/24/2002 2:15:35 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) of 116756

Has America withheld Food like OPEC has withheld Oil? YES! IT HAD ONCE WITHHELD FOOD FROM INDIA. I am not sure exactly when it happened. But I believe it happened during Nixon's first term as president and Indira Gandhi was then the Indian leader. Why? Because India leaned more and more towards the Soviet Union in apparent defiance of the U.S., and so the much needed wheat for the starving millions was withheld to teach India a lesson! The wheat was in fact burnt. This was reported in a British Pathe News documentary. Excuse of the U.S:- There was an excess of wheat. It was necessary to maintain price stability by getting rid of the excess wheat. What BS from the president who later said in connection with the Watergate investigations, "I am not a crook."! Is this incident widely known to U.S. citizens? Of course not: it would have been so embarrassing. But really it doesn't matter because which American in his right mind <ggg> would believe it anyway? <ggg> Not only that. The persistent parochialism of that period "insulated" Americans from awareness of world events elsewhere. It is not an exaggeration to say that people outside the U.S. know far more about America than Americans know about the outside world. I once saw a TV program in which an American was invited from the audience by the TV host to answer the question, "Who was America's first president?" That American just blinked and blinked and his face turned as red an a cooked lobster. Then another member of the audience was asked where American soldiers landed in the invasion of Europe on D Day. Same thing --- no reply. It was incredible!!!

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