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...rely on products certified as authentic by various local groups. They rush as often as five times a week to local farmers' markets or grow their own produce in backyard gardens. Appointed buyers search for veal that is "humanely raised" and fed milk from cows that eat organic grain...
AGAINST THE GRAIN by Boris Yeltsin; Summit; 263 pages...
Last week Chamorro aides said the new government would move quickly to sell many of the large state enterprises established by the Sandinistas. Such a policy could affect confiscated sugar mills and textile factories as well as grain interests. Chamorro's coalition, the National Opposition Union (U.N.O.), has pledged, however, not to take back the thousands of homes, farms and businesses seized and nationalized by the Sandinistas. Instead, peasants will be permitted to keep the land that was parceled out to them, and the former owners will be compensated for their losses...
...Kazakhstan many atomic-weapons tests have been conducted, but the people were never consulted. So there is a conflict now between the republic and the center. There is also the tragedy of the Aral Sea, which is dying. Prices for the republic's wool, coal, metallurgy and grain are set by the center, and the republic loses. Kazakhstan should decide its own cultural and economic problems, except those it willingly gives over to the center, such as the defense of borders or railroad lines...
...commits to any dollar amount. He will try to persuade Japan and Western Europe to contribute funds, but they too are oversubscribed by the needs in Eastern Europe. Bush may even quietly encourage the Soviet Union to continue its nonmilitary cash subsidies, plus 25,000 tons of free grain and 70% of the oil Nicaragua consumes...