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...forces are outside the direct control of Government. The soaring costs of fuel and food account for about half of the present inflation. But oil prices are dictated by the OPEC cartel, and food prices have been sent skyward by capricious weather. A combination of heavy spring rain, summer drought and early fall frost has already reduced crops of corn, wheat and soybeans, boosting the cost of everything from bread to salad oil, and feed for cattle and hogs. In August alone, the wholesale price of farm and food products rocketed 7.6%, and some Government economists believe that retail food...
...birth rate in the world as a whole. In the underdeveloped areas of Asia and Africa, which include more than half of the world's people, the population is increasing by 2.3% a year, far faster than food supplies-a serious situation that has been severely aggravated by drought in parts of Africa and India. In Bucharest last month, a United Nations conference of demographers, scientists and government planners from 141 nations held ten days of acrimonious discussions about how to combat this 20th century version of the old Malthusian nightmare (TIME, Sept. 9). Naturally, not much tune...
...Weissbecker concedes that the game of food-price forecasting can often be "imprecise" and that the effects of the mid-Western drought and Hurricane Carmen may well be "very significant...
...summer's Midwest drought hurt production of feed grains so badly that the Agriculture Department now estimates that retail food prices, far from going down, will rise another 4% to 5% in this year's second half, then go up some more in 1975. The best hope that Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz can offer is that next year's rise will be less than 10%, v. 15% this year...
...women's groups for example), groups that appear and disappear fairly frequently (the New Right Coalition and other libertarian groups, for example) and ad hoc pressure groups that spring up around particular issues. Last year there were groups interested in raising money for the victims of the North African drought, picketing military recruiters, changing the academic calendar, and raising money for Israel during the October...