Word: argentina
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...mystery how Moscow coped with the grain embargo. Once the Soviets were cut off from all but 8 million of the 27.5 million metric tons of grain they wanted from the U.S., they simply began offering premium prices to other grain-exporting countries. Argentina, which refused to honor the embargo from the beginning, increased its export earnings last year by an estimated 30% through sales to the Soviets. In November, Canada and Spain announced that they were stepping up exports to the Soviet Union. The Canadians originally supported the boycott but then withdrew from it because they claimed that American...
...summer, however, the farmers' plight had vastly improved. The drought in the U.S., plus bad harvests in Argentina and Australia, gave farm prices a big boost. The cost of grain suddenly shot up by as much as 50%; at that point, buyers snapped up all of the grain in sight and the result was a bonanza for farmers who had been able to ride out the early months of the embargo. "For the first time in 35 years, I'm out of debt," said Clarence Adams of McHenry, Ill. He had sold 30,000 bu. of corn...
...result, Soviet production of beef and pork has fallen significantly, say U.S. observers. If the Soviet winter-wheat crop this spring is as poor as expected, Soviet economic planners may face the uncomfortable choice of increasing costly grain imports from Canada, Argentina and Australia or trimming back further on cattle herds and poultry flocks. That could mean years of less meat for Soviet consumers, a prospect that should cause some concern for Kremlin leaders. While Soviet citizens are hardly as restless as the Poles, it was last summer's meat shortages and price hikes that touched off the worker...
...regimes in South Vietnam, Iran and Nicaragua was immoral, Kirkpatrick believes instead that the U.S. should have continued backing the Shah even after the details of his 20-year reign of terror became public. After all, she says in perhaps the most ironic and alarming part of her article, Argentina is closer to progressive liberalization than Cuba or China. Her comparison of these countries in terms of human rights is as absurd as her suggestion that Argentina, suffering under a lethal stability imposed by the right, will soon be democratized...
...immediate effect of the plebiscite, ironically, may be to polish Uruguay's image in international eyes. The regime's human rights violations during the campaign against the Tupamaros seemed restrained only in comparison with the methodical executions and disappearances in neighboring Argentina. But the military kept its pledge to have an honest referendum, and public opposition to the constitution was expressed in newspapers and at political meetings. The regime, moreover, is somewhat less repressive than it used to be. Although the Tupamaros leaders are still in jail, the number of political prisoners has dropped from...