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Nothing is older to man than his struggle for food. From the time the early hunters stalked the mammoths and the first sedentary "farmers" scratched the soil to coax scrawny grain to grow, man has battled hunger. History is replete with his failures. The Bible chronicles one famine after an other; food was in such short supply in ancient Athens that visiting ships had to share their stores with the city; Romans prayed at the threshold of Olympus for food...
...world's reserves* of grain have reached a 22-year low, equal to about 26 days' supply, compared with a 95-day supply in 1961, according to Lester Brown, a leading U.S. food expert. Low harvests and high prices have forced the traditional surplus-producing nations to curtail the amount of food that they normally give as aid to the hungry nations. For example, unless the U.S. adopts an expanded program, American aid this year will drop 50% in some categories. Sales of food are also shrinking. Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Burma and the Common Market nations have restricted...
Mayer called for the oil-producing nations to "make a special effort to help fellow Moslem countries--Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia," and said the Soviet Union should disclose its grain reserves...
Mayer also suggested that Americans cut their consumption of alcohol, estimating that the grain used to produce the hard liquor consumed annually by Americans could feed 20 to 30 million people...
International Lawyer Samuel Pisar, a longtime advocate of more U.S.-Soviet trade, believes that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. must formulate a set of principles to spur commercial interchanges. Among other things, Pisar believes that the Soviets must agree to announce plans for grain purchases in advance in order to avoid inflationary disruption of world markets. The agreement on the U.S. trade bill has opened opportunities for businesslike relations between the world's most awesome nuclear powers that for the sake of peace, cannot be allowed to go unexploited...