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With reference to your article about grain export to the Soviet Union [Aug. 18], wouldn't it be a good idea to offer liquid grain (vodka) to the Soviet Union instead of shipping them grain? This certainly should keep them in good spirits and would save their own grain for bread...
...anyone even consider selling U.S. grain to the Soviet Union, at this point in time, with the staggering food prices here in our own country...
...sign of the increasing edginess in Washington is the rising controversy over the sale of American grain to the Soviet Union. The Ford Administration has publicly endorsed the sale but the AFL-CIO's president, George Meany, vowed that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load such grain unless Ford did more to "protect the American consumer and the American shipping industry." He declared that the Administration must come to him with such guarantees and "with Dr. Kissinger at the head of the parade." Growled Meany: "Foreign policy is too damned important to be left...
...union protests go, the campaign led by AFL-CIO President George Meany and maritime union chiefs against the latest Soviet purchase of American grain is unusual, to say the least. Up in Washington, Meany & Co. last week continued to denounce the grain deal, and to insist that the "boycott" of Soviet ships would continue. But meanwhile down at the Gulf Coast grain ports, loading was going on as usual. The longshoremen have in fact been kept working by court injunctions ever since their job action was announced two weeks ago, and they seem unperturbed. Said Luther Wiggins Jr., a union...
While the phantom boycott has not slowed the loading of the initial 10 million tons of American grain that the Russians ordered in July, it has helped to keep the emotionally charged issue of Soviet sales and rising food prices high up in the public consciousness. AFL-CIO spokesmen claim that their mail is running 20 to 1 in favor of the unions' rebellion...