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MOST PROMISING NEW DOMESTIC CHEESE American chèvre (goat cheese) has so far lacked the rich complexity of the French product. Serious efforts at the Coach Farm in Pine Plains, N.Y., are a big step in the right direction. The production is presided over by Marie-Claude Chaleix, a French cheesemaker who hopes Americans will learn to love the blue mold that indicates age and gives this white cheese its tantalizing earthiness...
...that there is anything the highly industrialized U.S.S.R. could learn from agrarian China. But they have at least been inquisitive about Deng's reforms, and by some indications more impressed than they like to admit. Dwayne Andreas, chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Co. (a giant U.S. corporation dealing in farm produce) and a frequent visitor to China, journeyed to Moscow in 1984 and had a two-hour private talk with Gorbachev, who was then still in charge of Soviet agriculture. "He was very curious about what I told him concerning the reforms," Andreas recalls. "He particularly wanted to hear...
Gorbachev is extending experiments to give selected industrial and farm managers slightly greater freedom in pricing and production decisions. His closest economic adviser, Abel Aganbegyan, has called for a reallocation of investments to modernize factories rather than build new ones and to improve the quality of products. But this rechanneling is to be carried out by the central planners. So, as Gorbachev suggested in his August interview with TIME, his program rather contradictorily appears to call for a loosening of state control in some areas and a tightening in others--at the same time...
...draft animals, and those who prosper can buy machinery; ownership of tractors has burgeoned from 90,000 to 290,000 in the past two years. Though the state retains the power to cancel a peasant family's lease and award it to someone else, that power is rarely exercised. Farm families are increasingly regarding the good earth as theirs and using it about the way they would if they owned it outright...
Wang's classmate Ma Biao (a pseudonym) worked on a farm from 1966 to 1968 before graduating from college in 1970. After a decade of factory work, Ma enrolled in a small Western-style management school, where he now studies. Like Wang, he has developed doubts about the practicality of his instruction. Says Ma: "The methods are not very useful because they do not tell you how to manage when the power remains above you. Also, they do not tell you how to deal with the party secretary in the plant, since he still keeps much authority...