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...received from the states in taxes and other revenues - $14.5 billion -and Washington comes up $6 billion short. Admits Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was voted out of office last month: "As beneficiaries, we are reluctant to confront or confess the federal largesse because it cuts across the grain of our pioneer spirit...
...State Department official: "There is no facet of international affairs in which the Soviets would not lose." Western economic reprisals would be swift and painful; the European allies, which had little taste for the Afghanistan embargoes imposed by the U.S., would be far more responsive concerning Poland. Sales of grain and sophisticated technology to the Soviets might well be shelved, and so might plans for a ballyhooed natural gas pipeline between Siberia and West Germany...
...domestic and foreign, and spoke at length of Iran, the hostages and the Middle East. Carter also urged Reagan to back pending legislation that would provide a fund to clean up chemical wastes, and he hinted that Reagan was "wise" in re-evaluating his opposition to the embargo of grain sales to the Soviet Union. Declared Reagan later: "Let me sum by saying it was a rather complete briefing." Carter was pleased with the way things had gone. Said one aide: "You got two guys approaching this with a certain degree of apprehension. It went well...
...along the shore prevents it. Originally built by the Japanese during, the occupation period, such installations are common along the whole shore of Taiwan. Many have been abandoned but none destroyed; once in a while an enterprising farmer will use one to house his chickens or to store his grain...
...sources confirmed that Poland had asked the U.S. for $3 billion in low-interest loans over three years. A rescue mission of such magnitude is an impossibility for the lame-duck Carter Administration. But to show good faith, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has recommended that credit guarantees for grain sales to Poland be increased from $670 million to a reported $900 million over the next year. According to British Trade Minister Cecil Parkinson, who was in Warsaw last week, Poland is also seeking new loans from West Germany, France, Italy and Britain...