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...ORVILLE FREEMAN, 47, experienced his darkest hour as Secretary of Agriculture in 1963 when U.S. farmers overwhelmingly rejected his wheat program. Since then, in one of the Cabinet's toughest jobs, Freeman has steered a four-year farm bill through Congress, reduced agricultural surpluses by nearly a third, helped to make American food production a key instrument of foreign policy. He now stands at the peak of his popularity with farmers...
...What was Bobby Freeman's follow-up to Do You Wanna Dance...
...India's need is now. In talks with President Johnson and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Subramaniam explained that 1965's drought-decimated harvests had left India at least 13 million tons short of grain to feed its 480 million people. Though the U.S. made no definite promises, there seemed little doubt that President Johnson would step up U.S. grain shipments. As he left Washington, Subramaniam told reporters, "Your great President gave me confidence that the problem will be solved. I go back to my country inspired...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, who carried the word to the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome last week, warns that unless recipient countries devote as much effort to increasing agricultural production as they do to prestige-building industrial projects, they could face a cutoff of U.S. food. Otherwise, he says, within 20 years the combined capacity of the U.S. and the Western world will not be sufficient to fill the gap. Said Freeman: "World hunger can be finally solved only in those areas where it is most prevalent." It can be done. In twelve...
...Freeman's message was discreetly but unmistakably beamed at India, which has received the lion's share ($2.6 billion) of Food for Peace commodities, last year took 15% of the entire U.S. wheat crop-and still faces famine (see THE WORLD). Ghana had a ruder awakening. Two days after the State Department lodged a strong protest over a new virulently anti-American book by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, the U.S. declined his government's request for $129 million worth of wheat, rice and dried milk. Faced with ever dwindling reserves and ever increasing demand...