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...Criticism. The department's statements seemed inspired partly by eagerness to counter sharpening criticism of sales of U.S. grain to the Soviets, and they did not wholly succeed. Department officials say the main impact of the Soviet purchases on U.S. prices will come in 1976, but Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and department economists concede that additional Russian buying will ultimately raise consumer food prices by more than 1.5 percentage points...
...shortfall, the second major Soviet grain crisis in the past four years, raises a basic question that has bedeviled the commissars since Lenin's days: Why is the Soviet Union unable to feed itself? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz last week had a ready explanation: "There is no greater folly than to try to dictate agriculture policy from the political arena. Centralized decision making doesn't work-it never has and it never will...
...Ford's messages of diplomatic and investigative restraint. Then Kissinger flew off to the bourbon belt and in Birmingham outlined American interest against the Communists in Portugal. In Bloomington, Ind., meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury William Simon was smiting big Government hip and thigh, while Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz went before Maine's poultry federation to extol the country's productive might and the virtues of Yankee enterprise in international markets...
...almost surely will not get their way completely. To the displeasure of U.S. farmers eager to make more big sales, the Soviets in effect will be rationed to a portion of their wants-how large a portion, the Ford Administration must soon make up its mind. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz last week renewed a request to all U.S. grain exporters to refrain from negotiating any more sales to Moscow until further notice. (The Administration has no statutory authority to order such a suspension, but grain-export companies obey Washington's wishes.) The notice is not likely to come...
...Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...