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...following page comes straight from the hearts of upperclass Crimson editors who live in the various houses described. These aren't scientific judgments, and you should take them with a grain of salt. If all goes well, the house you go to will turn out better than we predicted...
...miseries are not the countryside's only plight. Thanks to bumper harvests around the world, wheat farmers face their lowest returns in more than half a century, and the international embargo on exports to Iraq has also eliminated Australia's second-biggest customer. Aggravating the crisis is cutthroat grain dumping by the U.S. and the European Community; both unload surplus wheat overseas at subsidized prices...
Bush also had his own domestic economic agenda. Other major grain producers, from Canada to Australia, have already eased the Soviets' access to credit; failure to follow suit, U.S. farmers argued, could shut them out of the huge Soviet market. But farm- belt lawmakers complained that the credit guarantees did not go far enough: Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas had hoped for at least $3 billion. Trade experts note that because of Moscow's shortage of hard currency reserves, the U.S.S.R. needed the credits simply to match its normal level of U.S. imports...
...problem is not food supply -- for one thing, the U.S.S.R. had a record grain crop this year -- but distribution. Farmers have been holding back produce from the state, hoping to make more lucrative cash and barter deals elsewhere. A crumbling transportation system has left crops rotting in the fields or in warehouses. Soviet citizens grumble that many of the delays are deliberate, the work of diehard local bureaucrats seeking to undermine Gorbachev. The very fact that many Soviets have been stockpiling foodstuffs at home, though it provides them a cushion against the future, has only added to the sense...
...FUMBLING CENTER. There is little confidence outside Moscow that the central government can mend the economy. A decision this year to increase the price the state will pay for grain and meat has not led to more production. Farmers, who have no incentive to accumulate more worthless rubles, have even taken land out of cultivation. Agricultural markets have also been disrupted by government schemes that allow producers of some products to make deals directly with buyers. In parts of the Ukraine, peasants waiting for a better price have turned over only 5% of the grain harvest to the state...