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...covered in grimy cellophane -- priced at $1.60 per lb. I stand in line for 14 minutes and buy a 2-lb. package of beef. There had been some sugar that morning, an employee informs me, and there may be some in the afternoon. I pass an outdoor state fruit stand that will not open for nearly an hour. Seventeen people are already in line, waiting for prized tangerines...
...tussle adds to U.S. fears that Europe's movement toward a unified market in 1992 will raise increasing barriers to outside competition. The beef war already shows signs of escalating. E.C. officials are preparing a list of U.S. food imports as counterretaliatory targets. Among them: dried fruit, canned corn and honey...
...seedlings they would otherwise have destroyed. He has coaxed the California National Guard ("all those empty trucks and planes sitting around") into helping transport the trees. He once even persuaded Club Med to rescue and care for two exhausted TreePeople volunteers in Senegal who had fallen ill while planting fruit trees in famine-stricken African countries. "I don't know how many bureaucrats have laughed us off over the years," he muses. "Then one person says, 'Maybe we can help you.' That's vital to voluntarism...
Perhaps no one is better prepared for hot, dry summers than Israel's farmers. The Israelis, using drip irrigation and other techniques, have made plants bloom on land that has been barren for millenniums. Portions of the arid Negev, an area once written off as largely uncultivable, today grow fruit, flowers and winter vegetables eagerly sought by European markets. Through a process known as "fertigation" -- dripping precise quantities of water and nutrients at the base of individual plants -- crops can be grown in almost any soil, even with brackish water...
...agreement elicited warm praise from Cuba, Angola and the U.S., which sees the protocol as the fruit of nearly eight years of artful, arduous negotiation by Crocker -- helped along toward the end by the new spirit of cooperation between Washington and Moscow. U.S. officials credit the Soviets for employing "cajolery and arm-twisting" that made the Cubans and Angolans more flexible, particularly during the crucial round of talks at which a withdrawal timetable was worked out. SWAPO welcomed the accord but expressed doubts about South African intentions. The only guarantee of Pretoria's keeping its word after signing the agreement...