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Made by fermenting milk with grain from the kefir bushes that grow in the Middle East and southern Balkans, the drink until recently was available in the U.S. only in selected East and West Coast stores. Now Lifeway distributes 5,000 quarts of kefir a day in 20 states. Last month the company went public, raising $600,000 as part of a plan to triple production. But Lifeway's founders have no thoughts of challenging yogurt giants Dannon and Yoplait. Says Smolyansky: "That's the great thing about America. There's always room for a little guy with a good...
...assertiveness, a sense of defeatism permeates parts of Hunan. "When it comes to running businesses," concedes the province's vice governor, Yang Huiquan, "we're not on a par with people in the coastal areas." To a large degree, central planners still require Hunan's state farms to grow grain instead of cash crops. Yang would like Hunan and its 56 million people to imitate Guangdong. He is even seeking investment from the neighboring province. But the desire for prosperity does not seem as deeply rooted in Hunan as in Guangdong, particularly among older people. "Social morality has deteriorated," complains...
...target date is two weeks before Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan begin their summit in the Soviet capital. Agreement on Afghanistan would resolve an issue that has troubled relations for nearly a decade, prompting a U.S. grain embargo and keeping Americans home from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow...
...well-armed insurgents. Long-suffering Ethiopians are the losers in both. In recent weeks rebels in the northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, where close to 3 million people are at risk of dying from starvation, have escalated their campaign against the government by ambushing food convoys, attacking grain-distribution centers, mining roads, firing on transport planes, and rocketing airfields. By last week the civil war had virtually halted the relief program in Tigre. Regional warehouses are mostly empty because roads are too dangerous for trucks to navigate or have been closed by the government. Says an official...
...already in the international pipeline bound for the east African nation; supplies are assured through October. Many countries have responded to the call for help with generous donations, including the U.S. with 250,000 tons, and the Soviet Union, Ethiopia's chief ally and a net grain importer, also with 250,000 tons...