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...conditions, mostly warmer, some wetter, and some drier, and some rapidly alternating between wetter and drier. In many areas the unusually warm conditions of the last few years are bumping up against upper temperature limits for reproductive success and yield at harvest for some of our most important grain crops...
...Ambassador last week, but only after the embassy had been ringed by hundreds of Soviet and Afghan troops for five days and its electricity and phone lines cut off. In New Orleans, a dispute continued to simmer over the fate of Miroslav Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step of issuing a subpoena for Medvid to appear before a Senate committee...
...both sides of the five record sleeves. He also talked to TIME (see following story), and with Dylan, interviews can be as deft as his musical performances. Biograph contains 53 songs, some of them standards like Mr. Tambourine Man and Lay Lady Lay, others more recent material like Every Grain of Sand and a relatively obscure scorcher, Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar. The songs are arranged by contrast and casual association, not chronologically, and the ordering, even when playful (as in following Tangled Up in Blue with It's All Over Now, Baby Blue), gives even the most...
...months later the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. An angry Sunday-school teacher is dangerous. Carter thrashed about in his despair, pulling the U.S. out of the Moscow Olympics, embargoing the sale of American grain to the Soviets, and losing the nation's confidence in his Vienna nuclear arms deal. It died in Congress...
...Reagan set a chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted a pragmatic course that belied his hostile words: he lifted the ineffective grain embargo that Jimmy Carter had imposed on Soviet trade after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Ever since, the Administration's policy toward the Soviet Union has had a typically Reaganesque twist: harsh ideological rhetoric tempered by moves rooted in an emerging realism. The inconsistency has caused relations between the two superpowers to blow...