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...today. That is good news for consumers, particularly for the country's biggest user, Coca-Cola Co. Each 1? drop in sugar prices saves Coke $20 million a year. But the tumbling prices are bad news for domestic growers of sugar cane and sugar beets, who contend they need a price of 17? per Ib. to meet their production costs...
...price fluctuations set the stage for a bitter controversy that has raged in Washington for months. Senator Frank Church of Idaho has turned beet red and Senator Russell Long of Louisiana has raised cane in an attempt to boost Government price supports for sugar, now 13.5? per Ib., to 17?. They are opposed by the Carter Administration, which insists that a price floor higher than 14.4? per Ib. would be inflationary. Last week the battle turned ugly when makers of corn fructose (a sugar substitute) accused the Administration of withholding documents needed to prove their charge that Carter...
...White House problems, Long led a congressional delegation to the White House last week to press for sugar import fees and quotas. Said he: "If I went to my cane farmers and said something nice about President Carter, I would be lucky to get out with my hide." The President was conciliatory and promised to take a personal hand in finding a compromise to end the controversy...
...price of a basic supermarket staple? Yet that is just what is happening to sugar. Moreover, the congressional effort is designed to bail out far fewer than one-half of 1% of the nation's farmers, specifically 11,000 sugar-beet growers and 1,800 raisers of sugar cane...
DIED. Robert Bradshaw, 61, highhanded Prime Minister of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, a trio of West Indian islands knit together as a British associated state; of cancer; in Basseterre, St. Kitts. In a troubled climate of high unemployment with a flimsy sugar-cane economy, Bradshaw clung to power chiefly because of his adaptability. A onetime bicycle mechanic and cane cutter, he rose as a labor organizer, attained political power and preached nationalism while flaunting cutaways and a yellow Rolls-Royce. When Britain's colonial hold eased in 1967, Bradshaw was voted into the first of three terms as Prime...