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...Brezhnev's most conspicuous failure was in agriculture, where he tried hardest. In spite of an outsize 33% share of total Soviet investment-far higher than the figure for any other industrial country-agriculture has become such a fiasco that the embarrassed Soviets have ceased publishing figures on grain production. During Brezhnev's final years of rule, the country was bedeviled by acute shortages of meat, butter and cheese. Of course, Brezhnev cannot be blamed for the Soviet Union's periodic bouts of bad weather. But other problems plaguing the country's farms proved endemic under...
...novel The Octopus by Frank Norris, which romanticizes the grain farmer, the villain is buried alive under a mountain of wheat. Across the Midwest, many farmers are increasingly fearful that they are about to be buried financially in a similar fashion. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed its estimates of record U.S. and world grain production in 1982. In Minnesota and the Dakotas, farmers are stuffing unsold wheat into their sheds, leaving tractors and combines out in the cold. An abandoned coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied...
...Europeans had a more compelling case. They rightly claimed the U.S. should not dictate to its allies in such cases and pointed out the hypocrisy of maintaining American grain sales to the U. S. S. R. They also argued they had negotiated a sound business deal, which seems apparent...
Just as important, the Soviets stand as much to gain from the pipeline as the West does. They are likely to pour much of the currency revenues from the pipeline right back into Western economies for the purchase of grain and high technology. The pipeline technology itself will help the Soviets produce for themselves Siberian gas they otherwise could not get at for a few years, hence making energy hunting in the Persian gulf less of a necessity...
...honor their commitments. That resolve hardened when the Reagan Administration last month announced its decision to sell the Soviet Union 23 million tons of wheat, or 15 million more than last year's allotment. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, usually pro-U.S. in its views, curtly dismissed the grain deal as a ploy "to win the votes of American farmers" in last week's midterm U.S. elections...