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...Case of Dye. Major stumbling blocks remained over freer trade in grains and chemicals. But Roth, in a dramatic shift in the U.S. position, withdrew his demand for guaranteed access to Europe's grain markets. Reason: the best offer from the Common Market amounted to less grain than American farmers already sell to the Six. Still, the U.S. insisted that reluctant Europeans join in creating a massive food-aid program for underdeveloped countries, which would increase world demand for U.S. wheat. For its part, the Common Market demanded that the U.S. get rid of its 1922 law that bases...
...attackers were tens of thousands of the very Red Guards whom Premier Chou En-lai last month ordered back to school. Those orders were part of a general damping down of revolutionary chaos in the interests of getting the spring grain crop planted and the economy moving. But last week's youthful display indicates that Mao has changed his mind about any letup. Wall posters, in fact, reported that Chou and other Maoist officials publicly admitted that it has been a mistake to disband the Red Guards...
...exports in the past decade have quadrupled to $1.3 billion. In the past 18 months, Iran has signed long-term trade and military deals with both East and West involving nearly $3 billion; the latest provides for the exchange of Iranian oil for $40 million worth of Rumanian grain silos and railroad cars. The gross national product has doubled in a decade to $6.5 billion a year...
...short-run manpower needs. The African authorities are very picky about what kinds of people they will send abroad for training. We have to pass up some awfully good history majors to get down to the lad wanting fisheries. It pains our soul. It sort of runs against the grain of the American tradition in education which lets everybody choose for himself. But the young applicant for a scholarship is really an impersonal part of this big thing called African socialism," Moll says...
...against the American grain, but it isn't very hard to appraise manpower needs like these: at Independence, the Congo had only 16 university graduates; Malawi (population three and a half million) had two doctors and one engineer. Most African nations have made great strides in higher education, since then, and while this is one of the reasons ASPAU is shrinking its program this year, the needs of the Great Interim still remain pressing...