Yes, Mr. Gorbachev dawdles and resists the free marketeers' pleas to eliminate wage and price controls (perhaps sensible caution when the results might be mass starvation and revolt).

So if there's going to be mass starvation, deprivation, then we're going to be looking at some serious problems militarily.

The result will be mass starvation, disease, and civil unrest.

Unless there is agreement soon on a cease-fire and guarantees of safe passage, the result will be mass starvation.

Also, while forms of economic growth associated with any economic structure produce some winners and losers, anticommunists point out that high growth rates under communist rule were associated with particularly intense suffering and even mass starvation of the peasant population.

Arguing that in today's world every joule one eats requires 5-15 joules to produce and deliver, some have speculated that decreasing supply of oil will cause modern industrial agriculture to collapse, leading to a drastic decline in food production, food shortages and possibly even mass starvation.

As the world reaches an estimated seven billion people, people like Vivek say efforts to bring down the world's population must continue if life on Earth is to be sustainable, and if poverty and even mass starvation are to be avoided.

In particular, mass starvation was used as a tool of political control.

When the rains do not fall, a regular situation here, a result is mass starvation.