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...concerned, Susan Ford can do anything she wants. I just wish her dad would fire Earl Butz...
...department's statements seemed inspired partly by eagerness to counter sharpening criticism of sales of U.S. grain to the Soviets, and they did not wholly succeed. Department officials say the main impact of the Soviet purchases on U.S. prices will come in 1976, but Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and department economists concede that additional Russian buying will ultimately raise consumer food prices by more than 1.5 percentage points...
...shortfall, the second major Soviet grain crisis in the past four years, raises a basic question that has bedeviled the commissars since Lenin's days: Why is the Soviet Union unable to feed itself? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz last week had a ready explanation: "There is no greater folly than to try to dictate agriculture policy from the political arena. Centralized decision making doesn't work-it never has and it never will...
...Butz's wait-and-see attitude was based largely on three considerations...
...cannot expect to hold domestic food prices within bounds and remain a dependable grain supplier to much of the world if it opens its granaries to periodic and disruptive incursions by Soviet traders. Secretary Butz hopes the Soviets will begin to behave like ordinary customers who will announce their grain requirements in advance. But if Moscow remains reluctant to play by the rules, the U.S. will be forced, just as Butz has now done, to make special ones. There is increasing sentiment in Congress that those rules should include the establishment of a licensing agency along the lines...