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...snap quickly abated in much of the U.S., but Florida's citrus growers may never be the same. The freeze was the worst in history for the state's orange and grapefruit industry. Temperatures that dropped to the low teens destroyed as much as 40% of this year's crop. Coming on top of a $1 billion freeze in late 1983 and the citrus-canker epidemic in 1984, the icy blast destroyed the last hopes of some farmers in north-central Florida that they could survive in the business. Crops are smaller for as long as ten years after...
...CLICHES have come thick and fast, but there are two that crop up inexorably when the subject comes up. There is the idea of the definition of democracy being the right to swing one's arm only so far as the tip of someone else's nose, but bit is difficult to apply. The four teenagers had no right to be riding the rails looking for unsuspecting owners of five dollars, but were no more or less entitled to do that than Goetz was to shoot them...
Elsewhere in the Sunbelt, farm woes have cast a cloud over otherwise sunny economies. In Georgia, some 60% of the loans issued by the Farmers Home Administration are delinquent. "We're not out of the woods yet," warns Larry Snipes, a statistician for the Georgia Crop Reporting Service. "In fact, I'm not even sure that we've seen the worst." In Texas, farmers went out of business last year at a rate of more than 100 a week. State officials see an equally bleak...
Similar under-the-table transactions have been taking place in recent weeks all over central and eastern El Salvador as the harvest of the country's biggest cash crop got under way. Despite the bitter enmity between Salvadoran landowners and the Liberation Front, the coffee harvest is a time when the two sides find good use for each other. This year the interdependence appears to be greater than ever. Says a lawyer in the central department of Usulutan: "Everybody is making deals with the guerrillas." The reason, he explains, is that "the guerrillas are stronger. Their presence is being accepted...
...from coffee has shrunk, from more than $615 million to $403 million. This year bountiful rains promise a slight reversal of the trend. At current world prices, the Salvadoran coffee harvest could bring in as much as $410 million in desperately needed foreign exchange. Because roughly 25% of the crop is grown in areas contested or controlled by the guerrillas, more and more landowners have come to see the virtue of cooperating with their enemies, whose right to represent local workers may be debatable, but whose destructive capability is not. The government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, currently preparing...