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...shock, anger and disbelief, Americans this year have watched food scarcities drive grocery bills out of sight and the U.S. shut out eager foreign buyers by clamping export controls on soybeans and some other crops. Round the world, concern about food shortages grows. In Rome last week, Addeke H. Boerma, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, called officials of five major farming nations, including the U.S., to an urgent conference Sept. 20 that will consider ways to deal with a threatened global wheat pinch. U.S. agriculture, long regarded as a bottomless cornucopia whose output...
These trends combined to push up U.S. farm exports an amazing 60%, to $13 billion, in 1972-73 alone. Export demand is still rising, but nothing short of a series of malevolent miracles could prolong that pace. Already, some tendencies are at work to take the frenzy out of demand. The huge size of the American crop is allaying fears of foreign buyers, who are now likely to scale down immediate orders in the belief that supplies probably will be available later. Other nations are increasing their harvests this year. Canada's wheat crop, for instance, should weigh...
...seemed that Japan and South Korea had the perfect relationship. The Koreans had an economy thirsty for investments, the Japanese had an excess of foreign currency built up by their booming export trade. Over the years Japanese have edged out Americans as Korea's No. 1 investor, with more than $326 million in private investments. Then came the mysterious kidnaping last month in Tokyo of South Korean Opposition Leader Dae Jung Kim. Although Kim was released in Seoul five days after being abducted, many Japanese are convinced that South Korean President Chung Hee Park's CIA masterminded...
Nicaragua's biggest fashion export thus far has been Rock Singer Mick Jagger's lookalike wife Bianca, who sports a walking stick and tuxedos. Bianca is not the only clotheshorse Nicaragua is betting on. The postal service has issued a series of "Famous Couturiers of the World" stamps that reflects a more staid image than Bianca's. The series of eight includes a five-cordoba stamp ($2.00) for Balmain of Paris, a one-cordoba stamp for the French designer Givenchy, and a 15-centavo stamp for Halston, the only American honored...
Nicaragua's biggest fashion export thus far has been Rock Singer Mick Jogger's lookalike wife Bianca, who sports a walking stick and tuxedos. Bianca is not the only clotheshorse Nicaragua is betting on. The postal service has issued a series of "Famous Couturiers of the World" stamps that reflects a more staid image than Bianca's. The series of eight includes a five-cordoba stamp ($2.00) for Balmain of Paris, a one-cor-doba stamp for the French designer Givenchy, and a 15-centavo stamp for Halston, the only American honored...