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...part, the slowdown is the result of luck with the weather, which has produced bin-busting crops for several years. In the 1970s, food prices often kept right on rising rapidly even when crops were huge, but that is no longer happening. Export demand has somewhat abated as good crops in many nations have bolstered world supplies. Meanwhile, high interest rates have made it prohibitively expensive for farmers to maintain large storage operations, and as food has been pushed onto the market, prices have slumped. Finally, says Gene Sullivan, director of regional economics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta...
American automobile and consumer electronics companies have taken their lumps from Japanese competitors in recent years, and now it may be the turn of U.S. grain exporters. Since 1978 such gigantic Japanese trading houses as Mitsui & Co. (1981 sales: $70.8 billion), and Mitsubishi Corp. (1981 sales: $70.3 billion), have quietly bought some two dozen U.S. grain elevators to store crops for export, and now handle an estimated 10% of all American grain sales abroad...
Even more threatening, from the point of view of such conservative gulf states as Saudi Arabia, are Iran's stepped-up efforts to export its particular brand of Islamic revolution. There is abundant evidence that Tehran believes that the war with Iraq offers a unique opportunity for fomenting fundamentalist coups d'étât in other Muslim states. A recent appeal for volunteers issued by the Islamic Guards called on Iranians to help enable "the Islamic revolution to open the gates of freedom to the oppressed peoples of the region." Last December police in the tiny, prosperous...
STANFORD, Calif.--The faculty senate at Stanford University recently adopted a resolution opposing the application of federal export controls to academic activities...
...senate said the export regulations "should not be interpreted to restrict any scholar's access to information on a campus where classified research does not take place." The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week...