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...arrival in Amsterdam, Amalrik said he looked forward to a "normal life," planned to write a book on political terrorism and to lecture in Holland and the U.S. He also expressed fears for the new crop of dissidents he left behind. The KGB has begun to use "Mafia methods," he said, citing the recent fatal mugging of Poet Konstantin Boga-tyryov, the Russian translator of Rainer Maria Rilke who had protested against Soviet civil rights violations. While the scholar was dying of a fractured skull in the hospital, Amalrik went on, KGB agents ordered the doctors...
...North Carolina, Virginia -and above all, Georgia. The peanut plant is hardy enough not to require intense care, but it grows best in sandy soil. Georgia has that, and its farmers seem to have a natural flair for peanuts; anyway, the state produces almost 44% of the total U.S. crop...
...each of the past six years, Georgia farmers have raised their yield per acre to a record (1975 figure: 3,320 lbs.). The total U.S. crop last year was almost 4 billion lbs., up nearly a billion pounds from 1970. About 40% of the crop that is used for food is made into peanut,butter; the rest is divided among candy bars, snacks or cooking oil. Some peanuts are even crushed into feed for pigs...
...does not directly participate in the price-support program: the only Government check related to peanuts that his family received last year was $700 for storage fees. Indirectly, though, his business benefits from the general largesse scattered among peanut farmers by the fact that peanuts are the last food crop still under price supports -and Republicans, prominently including Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz. have threatened to make that a talking point in the campaign...
...high prices. This year's support price, scheduled to be announced next month, is expected to go as high as $415 a ton, v. a world price of $250. Each year the Government buys up huge amounts of peanuts; last year it purchased about 30% of the entire crop. This crop year, the Government's support operation has cost taxpayers $200 million directly, plus many millions more in high prices for peanut products (the average retail price of a 12-oz. jar of peanut butter jumped from...