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...more than most of its neighbors, Syria is a fertile land that since Biblical times has usually prospered by exporting grain and other foodstuffs. Today, Syria's chief domestic crop is trouble, its chief exports terror and sedition...
...pushing the revolutionary word on other fronts. Article after article claimed that a miraculous upsurge in industrial and agricultural production had been brought about by jettisoning all capitalist notions of expertise and turning instead to Mao-think. The New China News Agency reported that "China reaped the biggest grain crop in its history this year." (Western experts calculate a shortfall of 5,000,000 tons in the Chinese harvest for 1966.) The Agency also cited a "new leap forward" in iron and steel output as a result of "a mass movement to storm the technical citadels...
...word on whether the U.S. plans to sign another wheat agreement with India - to replace one that expires Dec. 31. The long delay reflected the White House view that India could be moving faster in modernizing its agriculture and that other countries must share the burden by providing grain, fertilizer or the hard currency...
...heralded as one of Algeria's leading new industrial zones, building sites still lie empty because of the shortage of foreign capital. To add to the misery, farm land in western Algeria has been burned black by the worst drought in a decade, cutting the year's grain supply in half...
...built-in darkroom aided Orbiter's remarkable performance. Unlike Ranger spacecraft, or the Surveyor that made a soft landing and televised relatively coarse pictures directly to earth, Orbiter focused the images from its medium and high-resolution lenses onto a fine-grain strip of film. After each section of the film was exposed, it was passed over a drum and pressed against a web treated with chemicals that developed it. After drying, the negative was scanned electronically, one narrow (one-tenth of an inch) strip at a time. Because each strip was electronically divided into 17,000 horizontal lines...