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...them their vision. A few years later, traveling to Nakong in northern Ghana, Wilson and his new wife Jean discovered villagers so accustomed to blindness that they found it difficult to believe the rest of the world could see. Recalls Wilson: "A blind farmer taught me how to plant grain along a straight piece of bamboo. Jean accompanied the blind women with their water buckets as they felt their way along the hemp rope from the well...
...announcing the export ban on 17 million tons of U.S. grain to the U.S.S.R., the White House estimated that perhaps 3 million tons of that might be bought elsewhere. Now Administration officials admit that Moscow will buy at least 6 million tons from other grain exporters, and Peter Rankin, director of food policy studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, estimates that the Soviets will be able to buy up to 11 million tons. Says Clayton Yeutter, president of Chicago's Mercantile Exchange: "In the end, the Soviets will get all they want...
Moscow has found other countries eager to replace the forbidden U.S. exports. The largest single new supplier is Argentina, which this year will deliver to the Soviets possibly 6 million tons of grain, vs. about 2 million normally. Canada and Brazil will likewise supply grain. Some international grain traders have also discovered means of circumventing the U.S. restrictions. American exports have mysteriously changed destination in mid-ocean and been diverted to Rumania and Poland. Countries like Spain and Italy have also been selling their supplies to the Soviet Union and replacing them with food bought at low prices in depressed...
...proudly announced that American oil drilling equipment, which Dresser Industries of Dallas had twice been stopped from exporting, was now being obtained in Italy and France. There is also little evidence that the trade bans are hurting the Soviet economy. The outlook is for a good-to-excellent Soviet grain harvest and the Kremlin insists that there will be no food shortages...
...ineffectiveness of the American grain and high technology embargoes is no surprise. Economic warfare during peacetime has a long record of failure dating back at least to the League of Nations' trade sanctions against Italy after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Other current U.S. embargoes are notably unsuccessful in either bringing down hostile regimes, muting their policies or stopping U.S. goods from getting through. Viet Nam has been subject to a trade ban since the 1975 fall of Saigon. Yet that country easily imports American products, ranging from drilling equipment and spare tractor parts to cigarettes...