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There are still other categories: anonymous donors whose sperm will be used for artificially inseminating women who cannot otherwise become pregnant, and would-be fathers whose semen will be consolidated in an attempt to raise their sperm count to a level high enough to cause pregnancy. And there are also a few simple eccentrics-like the Midwestern grandfather who has stored his seed against the possibility that his only son might prove infertile and thus not carry on the family line...
Trade negotiations are under way with the Japanese and the Europeans, and these talks are difficult. French President Pompidou declared last week that he will make no concessions that might weaken France's agricultural strength. "French farmers can count on my interest in them and my obstinacy," he said...
...away at low corn prices and high interest rates for farmers. Recently he interrupted a week-long tour through the Midwest to jet back to Washington to vote against Nixon's nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, who has little support among farmers. But whether he can count on any substantial backing from either group remains to be seen. He has also made some new allies among blacks after campaigning actively among them. On a four-day swing through California last week, he picked up commitments from three black state legislators to run on his slate...
...dependent on the Soviet Union for military aid, finally signed an important treaty of friendship with Moscow last summer. The U.S. was not solely responsible for driving the Indians into the Soviet camp; but its policy of not being beastly to Yahya convinced the Indians that they could not count on the U.S. for moral support. The result of the treaty: U.S. influence in India was virtually neutralized...
...request of Secretary-General Trygve Lie, he went on loan to the U.N.; he joined the permanent secretariat the following year and quickly became the Secretary-General's right-hand man, a role he filled until his retirement. When the mediator of the Palestine dispute, Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, was assassinated by Israeli terrorists in late 1948, Bunche took over. It required painstaking, brilliant diplomacy to bring the Arabs and Israelis together on the island of Rhodes; Bunche's forceful personality, plus occasional billiard games, helped to keep them there. When the armistice agreement was reached...