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...private American laboratories without revealing the source of the evidence or why it was to be examined. The civilian scientists found that the samples contained the chemical agent trichothecene toxin, known as T2. Soviet scientists have published articles on how to mass produce T2, which occurs naturally in grain molds common in the Soviet Union...
Finally, poor distribution and simple inefficiency exact a gigantic toll. In some parts of the Soviet Union threshing is still carried on as it was 200 years ago. Foreign travelers report seeing old women in the fields flailing the grain with wooden paddles, then winnowing by throwing kernels and hulls in the air, letting the wind separate the two. Another not infrequent sight: grain combines mowing while collection trucks follow much too far behind. "The combines literally funnel the grain right back into the fields, missing the trucks completely," says one bemused Western specialist. Western estimates put waste at between...
...spite of these setbacks, the Soviet planners seem determined to furnish the people with enough bread and to prevent the mass slaughter of livestock for lack of feed grains. President Leonid Brezhnev is unwilling to risk a repetition of the demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...
Despite President Ronald Reagan's lifting of the partial embargo on grain sales to the U.S.S.R. last April, the Soviet shortfall will be no windfall for U.S. farmers. Angry at Washington for having imposed the sales ban after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Moscow has bought only 1.5 million metric tons of the 6 million tons that the U.S. offered last June. Instead, the Soviets have contracted to purchase 47.5 million tons over the next five years from Argentina* and Canada...
...agreement with Australia for up to 3.9 million tons will also help make up the deficit. Clearly, Washington's tactic of using food as a weapon to make Moscow behave in international relations has misfired. Indeed, the U.S. is now scrambling for a share of the Soviets' grain business. Says Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economics J. Dawson Ahalt of the DOA: "It's an interesting turnaround...