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...period of a year? How, above all, would the soft-spoken and cautious Suwar al Dahab manage to tackle the crush of problems that had buried even Africa's most hardened survivor? Said one Western diplomat: "All the factors that overwhelmed Nimeiri--unrest in the south, a deteriorating economy, drought and a flood of refugees--may well overwhelm his successors...
...home gardeners pore over seed catalogs and boast of homegrown salads; she knows that "Nature, far from being on your side, is actively against you, attacking with bugs, molds, rot, cankers, neighboring dogs, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, drought, torrential rains, 'black' frosts, snow heaves, winter- kill. And I cannot think that the satisfaction derived is in the results, however beautiful or tasty . . . The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable...
...Israel's economic problems. We cut a billion and a half dollars in real terms from a budget that was extremely difficult to cut. It was a terrible year, like a drought, but what could I do? I felt if we cut too much we would lose the people's confidence. But I think that within a year the economy will have recovered. In my heart I don't want to do what some of the European countries have done, and that is to go into deep unemployment. I prefer to spread the burden more equally...
Ironically, when the cagers finally beat Princeton at Jadwin Gym a year ago to end a 25-year drought there, the Tigers showed their classless stripes and refused to shake hands with the Crimson after the game. Now Harvard has sunk to that level...
Still, the milk price-support system was not unduly expensive until the early 1970s. Then drought and detente intervened: the sale of wheat to the Soviets in 1972 and the parched summer of 1974 drove up feed costs, resulting in lower dairy production and higher milk prices. To put more cows on-line, Congress in 1973 raised the minimum price support from 75% of parity...