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...good thing the Soviets have not decided to impose economic sanctions on the U.S. All they would have to do is stop buying our grain...
President Reagan and his top aides came into office vowing that linkage would be a cornerstone of their foreign policy. But pressure from American farmers led Reagan to lift the grain embargo that Carter had imposed after the invasion of Afghanistan. Pressure from the NATO allies, from pragmatists in the State Department and from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were not eager for a new arms race, led the Administration to begin negotiations on European missiles in November-and to continue them despite the imposition of martial law in Poland...
People now at Harvard are the "leaders of tomorrow": they will "decide the future." More cliches, and more than a grain of much in them, which is why the unwillingness to see what is wrong is so depressing when it happens here. There are plenty of people in this city who could tell you that food is short, that it's no fun being Black because the cops are likely in chase you. And there are plenty of people elsewhere who could testify to all the other evils on this planet. But they have...
...York Times, Kissinger charged the Administration with failing to lead the West in the Polish crisis and with lacking a coherent approach to the world. Though he said, "I continue to believe that the Administration embodies the best chance for free peoples," Kissinger urged public debate on a grain embargo against the Soviets and a credit freeze on debt-ridden Poland. He called for a suspension of all high-level U.S. talks. Instead of seeing a clear and potentially effective response, lamented Kissinger, "freedom-loving Poles who looked West saw dithering procrastination, sophisticated justification for impotence, or rhetoric incapable...
...have them, and so plumbing is particularly vulnerable to freezing. The combination of pipes bursting in the 16° weather, and people continuously running tap water (a common precaution against frozen pipes) left the city with critically low water pressure. Twenty-three miles upriver from New Orleans, a grain elevator in Destrehan (pop. 1,760) burst in the 18° cold, spewing out 1.5 million bushels of wheat that crushed an adjacent cafeteria...