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...made it a bit easier for Bolivia to support the raid by promising to wipe out only the cocaine-processing labs, leaving the coca fields undisturbed. Raising coca is legal in Bolivia -- although processing it into cocaine is not -- and the fields produce the nation's only important cash crop. Bolivia's cocaine exports are worth at least $600 million a year, more than a third of its $1.5 billion in total annual exports. The cocaine trade provides a livelihood for up to 400,000 peasants, who have no other means of support...
Across the farm belt last week, it was clear that another bumper crop is on the way. In Illinois, the corn is already seven feet high in spots and not close to topping out. Some corn is tasseling weeks ahead of schedule, and an early harvest is in prospect. Soybeans have also benefited from perfect weather; many plants are waist high and flowering ahead of time. Good, dry planting weather came early this year across Iowa and Nebraska, and even scattered flooding has not hurt the promise of a bountiful harvest. Elsewhere in the Midwest, it is much the same...
...great bounty of U.S. agriculture continues to be a curse as well as a blessing. As the corn rises speedily, so does a forest of new silos that signals a crop-storage problem of epic proportions. All across the corn belt, from Indiana to Nebraska and Missouri to Minnesota, a binge of bin and silo building is in full swing. Reason: by the end of summer, U.S. farmers and the Department of Agriculture will be buried under more excess wheat, corn, rice and other products than ever before in history. Last week the immensity of the surplus became clear...
This year's corn crop will be the most dramatic example of U.S. agriculture's relentless surpluses. Because of the almost perversely ideal weather, with exactly the right amount of rain at the proper intervals, says Illinois' Vercler, "crop development is just about the best ever." Last year's corn crop was the largest in history, 8.9 billion bu., of which a record 5 billion bu. is left over in storage. The expected bumper harvest of 8 billion bu. this year, smaller in volume than 1985's because an increasing number of farmers have taken some acreage out of production...
...Prominent designers and architects are producing furniture and buildings distinctly reminiscent of Hoffmann, Wagner and Adolf Loos. Every second book jacket, it seems, has a thick, angular sans serif typeface derived from the Wiener Werkstatte, the seminal crafts collaborative established in the city in 1903. Nearly the whole crop of high-design coffee services and teapots marketed since 1980 seems to have been plucked from an avant-garde Viennese workshop sometime before...