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...SOVIET-AMERICAN TRADE. It's terribly important that the Russians be self-sufficient in food. We've got an enormous interest in seeing that they not compete with developing nations for grain. It's in our interests to provide our machinery so that they can take advantage of their natural gas and hydroelectric power. In exchange for energy, we can get aluminum...
Sticks of Flame. Between the tents and Khaneh Arneba, the next encampment eight miles away, fires started by detonated mines and exploding demolition charges were eating up miles of brown, sun-withered grain and turning telephone poles into sticks of flame. A column of Israeli tanks rolled by, flags flying. The crews waved perfunctorily, unlike the withdrawal from the Suez, where the soldiers had smiled, sung and even danced as they left. In Egypt, moreover, nobody spoke of having to return...
...have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries-the U.S., Canada and Australia -global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might...
Conspicuous Absence. An emergency worldwide aid program was launched last year and has already saved more than 1 million Africans from starvation. Private and national agencies, coordinated by the FAO, delivered about 518,000 tons of grain to the Sahel and Ethiopia. This year 770,000 tons have been pledged, nearly half of it by the U.S. and significant amounts by the Common Market, Canada, the Soviet Union, Sweden and China. Conspicuously absent from the ranks of the generous are the newly rich Middle East oil exporters. So far they have contributed less than 1% of the total...
Though the aid has been lifesaving, it has not been as effectively used as it could be. Inefficiency and corruption of local bureaucrats have slowed the distribution of the emergency supplies. In Mali and Niger, officials have diverted some of the donated grain to commercial channels for sale at enormous profits. Much of the donated food remains heaped high on the docks where it is prey to rats, locusts and thieves. The major problem, however, is logistics. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, after inspecting the famine areas in February, reported: "I saw piles of foodstuffs in the capitals...