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...Hoosier horse trader" (as Jerry Ford likes to call Earl Butz) was very pleased a few days ago to hear his Communist counterpart in Rumania say "You have something more powerful than atom bombs. You have protein...
...skills and capital to make the most of their opportunity. In the decades ahead, this area and its people -with its rich crops of wheat, corn and soybeans-just may be civilization's most valuable resource, more valuable even than oil and forests and minerals In Earl Butz's little study, which has a horse collar, a buffalo skull and other rustic memorabilia on the wall, the Secretary can almost smell the rising power of food in economics, politics and the pursuit of peace. In those 16 Central States with...
Most people now know that the Soviet Union's greatest (and growing) problem is its faltering ability to feed itself. All of the Russians' missiles and their vast oil reserves could dramatically shrink in importance if their food shortage gets worse. Butz has heard that concern from Leonid Brezhnev himself...
...Iran, awash with oil, officials pleaded with Butz to help them increase their food production. In Cairo and Warsaw and a dozen other capitals where a Secretary of Agriculture used to get a hasty treatment they now roll out the red carpet. Chuckles Butz...
...food and hunger expert Lester R. Brown says, "The issue is no longer whether food represents power, but how that power will be used." Butz is admittedly a politician as well as an agricultural economist. He would use the power of food more aggressively to restrain the Soviet Union and increase American influence in ravaged areas...