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...outdoor field being spotted by authorities, many growers have moved into abandoned warehouses with low rents. In the biggest raid yet in 1981, DEA agents found $200,000 worth of hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active ingredient) as the best Colombran grass...
...will just have to take the peasants' places." Unfortunately for the farmers-who are not only demanding recognition of their right to organize a Rural Solidarity but also a sweeping reform of the country's agricultural system-the only leverage they have is the threat of a "crop strike." But that option is limited because it would deprive their comrades in the factories of food...
...Alberto Lattuada, who directed her in Stay As You Are (1980), she is "a mixture of poison and nectar." more the latter at the box office. But to her own mind, German-born Nastassja Kinski, 20, is, like her actor-father Klaus, simply, "a professional." Asked to close-crop her luxuriant locks for Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart, the actress instantly complied. "I do whatever the role requires," says the now almost tressless Tess. -By Claudia Wallis...
...most disastrous economic effects of the cold wave were felt in Florida, where temperatures dropped to the mid-teens. The state's vegetable crop was almost totally destroyed. Ice formed in 90% of Florida's oranges, and only those immediately harvested and processed could be saved. Preliminary destruction is estimated at 20% of the state's orange crop, a loss of 49 million gal. of concentrated juice. Wholesale prices on canned concentrate immediately jumped...
Many Midwestern farmers, still suffering from the crop losses caused by the summer drought, now gaze forlornly over their bare, frozen land. In Minnesota, where about 5 in. of snow should have fallen by now, only a light powder covers the earth. Says Ed Grady of the state's farm bureau: "Our concern is that the frost may penetrate the ground more deeply than it would with a snow cover," thus damaging crops planted this winter. "This is about as dry as I can remember," observes Eldon Merklin, an Oklahoma farmer who planted 1,200 acres of wheat last...