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...reputations are not made of one or two incidents. They are the accumulation of many acts, big and small. Reagan's expanding foreign policy dossier includes decisions on the neutron bomb, Japanese auto imports, the Soviet grain embargo, arms to China. The Administration's domestic actions have also etched the Reagan image deeper in a number of ways...
...gently rolling plains of southern Russia and the Ukraine, stunted stalks of wheat and corn lay flat on the rich black earth, blighted by drought and wind. In the lower Volga region, rain mercilessly pelted burgeoning grain; harvesting combines stood idle as farmers watched the crop sink into the mud. The forecast is bleak this summer in the kolkhozy (collective farms) and sovkhozy (state farms) of the Soviet grain belt, where capricious weather has caused a third consecutive bad harvest-with an anticipated shortfall of 51 million metric tons in Soviet grain production...
...accurate have its forecasts of Soviet yields proved in the past that the distribution of DOA news bulletins in Washington this summer regularly attracted Soviet journalists. According to U.S. specialists who have analyzed satellite photos of Soviet farm land and who have also visited rural areas, the 1981 grain yield will amount to less than 185 million metric tons-21.6% below the target of 236 million in the current Soviet five-year plan. Grain production will be up imperceptibly from 179.2 million tons in 1979, and down marginally from 189.2 million last year...
Though the Soviet press has yet to report the full extent of the grain shortfall to its readers, newspapers have been full of revealing stories. Farmers have been exhorted to get crops in as fast as possible, before they are drowned by rain. Warnings have been issued against waste. A front-page editorial in Pravda denounced excess eating of bread. Evening Moscow cited World War II Veteran N. Semenov's complaint that "it is impossible to stand by indifferently when you see how many dried-up pieces of bread are being thrown...
Southern Russia and the Ukraine have sweltered through the hottest summer on record: wheat and corn have withered on the stalk. In addition, the weather played a cruel trick on farmers. When the grain was maturing and needed rain, the skies were cloudless. But as harvest time approached and dry weather was needed to reap the crop, thundershowers drenched the land. Corn, which is used widely for livestock feed, was badly affected in the flowering stage last month when it most needed moisture. Moreover, the unusual heat accelerated the growth of soybeans and barley so that everything...