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Furthermore, the Conference has not been able to deal substantively with the structure of food production and use in the rich nations. The purchasing power of the rich has meant the import of protein and its conversion into meat at incredible and growing rates. The export of our consumer culture, the development of export-oriented cash-crops, and the side-effects of the Green revolution involve additional distortions central to issues in which the rich nations are involved. These factors collectively inhibit, rather than promote self-reliant food supply systems in the Third World...
...sign the 1968 Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on the ground that it discriminated against nuclear have-not nations. Since the May 18 blast that signaled India's emergence as the world's sixth nuclear power, Kissinger has expressed concern over what he calls "the export of explosive technology." He worried that India might share its nuclear expertise with politically volatile Arab countries in exchange for much-needed oil concessions...
...Weight. Other Mexicans are enjoying the new weight that oil gives them in world councils. Within two years, Mexican officials think that the country could be exporting 200,000 bbl. a day, enough to put it in the same league with member producers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Indeed, Mexican officials are expected to begin sitting in on OPEC meetings soon as observers. Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez told President Ford last month that Mexico would export its oil at world prices, diluting hopes that it might undercut those vastly inflated quotes. These just might begin coming...
...Indeed, America "is the principal and residual supplier of grain to the world," explains Willard Cochrane, a University of Minnesota agricultural economist. "It is the country to which all countries come when they are short." This year, despite the recent restrictions on sales abroad, the U.S. will probably export about 41% of its crop-at least 82 million tons of wheat, soybeans, corn and sorghum, valued at about $17 billion. This is enough to provide about one-quarter of the world's 3.9 billion people with at least one meal daily...
Unless Mozambique is willing to accept a marked decline in living standards, it needs the $300 million that South Africa annually pours into its economy through export transits, tourism and remittances from the 100,000 Mozambique workers who make up roughly 25% of South Af rica's mining force. South Africa has also signed a ten-year contract to buy power from Mozambique's $400 million Cabora Bassa Dam, which begins operations later this month...