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...long as Washington and Moscow are at odds over Afghanistan, there is little chance of progress on other issues. The U.S. is likely to maintain its embargo on grain and advanced technology sales to the U.S.S.R. Though Washington last week approved Moscow's purchase of $5 million in American equipment for oil drilling in the northwest Pacific, the Administration claims that no highly sophisticated technology is involved. What also is likely to remain frozen is SALT II. When asked about the nuclear arms treaty at the confirmation hearings, Muskie said that Senate ratification is "an impossibility at this point...
...colonists, not from Africans. Today missionaries are sometimes seized upon as political scapegoats and expelled by new nationalist leaders. But Africans are still surprised and touched by the willingness of missionaries to struggle in the hinterlands, helping to dig wells, teaching reading and writing, commanding life-giving sacks of grain during periods of famine, risking their lives trying to cure the sick...
...industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian girl and a stop sign ornamented with a tinsel Christmas tree. In the background: a chainlike fence, grain silos, and cylinders of gasoline mounted on flatcars--all of this presented with illimitable, understated bitterness and a quality of throwaway grace...
...combined trading volume last year totaled $7.6 billion, compared with $765 million in 1970. Paris wants to increase trade with Moscow, which last year totaled $3.7 billion. As a whole, the E.C. sold $12 billion in goods to the Soviets last year, almost four times the $3.4 billion (mostly grain) sold by the U.S. Understandably, Western Europeans strongly emphasize trade factors when advocating a more restrained policy toward the U.S.S.R. Understandably the U.S. is not very receptive to such arguments...
...managed to kill 200 Soviet troops. The rebels also claimed to have exploded a newly completed copper mine in the Logar Valley and coal mines in Badakhshan. They have been putting pressure on farmers to cut back on spring planting. Partly for that reason, this year's grain crop will be only 75% of normal. When two grape growers pruned their vines, in violation of the rebels' orders, insurgents cut off the growers' ears...