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...went down the grain analysis sheet and found in the first round that they had added up the numbers wrong," said Rauch. "The total number was 150 instead of 156, which is what it should be. In the last round, the redistributing was also done wrong...
Before heading off for the welcome relief of superpower summitry, Gorbachev dispatched a telegram around the country ordering local authorities to make sure that peasants deliver grain to help solve the bread shortage. To ease tensions in the army, he issued a decree on improving the legal and economic rights of military personnel. A committee of top officials from Moscow and the republics has been set to work by Gorbachev on drafting a new treaty of the union. But one major item of business, so important that it may determine Gorbachev's political future and the very fate...
...Administration's answer is that it would try to fine-tune the effort to maximize the discomfort of Iraqis, and thus the political pressure on Saddam, without causing actual starvation. To stave off a famine, it might, for example, agree to permit emergency shipments of baby formula and grain...
...scarcity of fresh water for agriculture makes famines more likely every year. The world consumes more food than it produces, and yet there are few places to turn for additional cropland. Only by drawing on international stockpiles of grain have poorer countries averted widespread starvation. But those supplies are being depleted. From 1987 to 1989, the world's stock of grain fell from a 101-day surplus to a 54-day one. A drought in the U.S. breadbasket could rapidly lead to a global food calamity...
...itself, the company deflatingly titled its corporate history ConAgra Who? Chairman Charles ("Mike") Harper, 62, intends to keep things that way. "We are so simple, we're dull," he contends. Such modesty can be misleading. When Harper arrived in 1974, ConAgra was a nearly bankrupt company involved mainly in grain milling and commodities trading. He embarked on an expansion plan to place ConAgra at every step along "the food chain," as Harper likes to call it, from seed planting to retail sales...