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...sting came to light when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev announced that the 1977 Soviet grain harvest would amount to 194 million metric tons-the lowest since 1975. That bland statistic caused tremors of shock through not only the U.S. Department of Agriculture but the Central Intelligence Agency as well. All summer long the Agriculture experts and the CIA operatives who try to keep track of conditions on Soviet farms had forecast a fat 215 million-ton harvest, indicating that Moscow would not need to buy much foreign grain this year. But the bulletin from Brezhnev meant precisely the opposite...
...Erich Honecker. In the Kremlin's starkly modern Palace of Congresses, President Leonid Brezhnev rose to keynote the festivities with a 90-minute report on the state of the Soviet Union and the world. As always, he had quite a lot to say-about the latest Soviet grain harvest (somewhat disappointing), Moscow's current approach toward Peking (mildly conciliatory) and Eurocommunism...
...orchards throughout New England, the Mclntosh, Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Cortland apples have been ripe for six weeks, ready to be trucked to markets round the country or sold to nearby roadside stands. Last week as the harvest drew to an end, growers were hard pressed to gather in their crop?worth more than $50 million to them?before the fruit started spoiling and dropping to the ground. The weather and the Federal Government had, in the Northeastern farmers' view, conspired to make this a doubly difficult year. A snowstorm last spring destroyed blossoms. Heavy rains in September made...
...pickers themselves are feeling anything but harassed now that the harvest season is coming to an end. As they bring in the last of the crop, each can count on being about $1,500 richer. In the barracks at the Bolton orchards, the Jamaicans celebrate the end of the harvest by passing around a bottle of blackberry brandy, a favorite that they break out only on rare occasions. Vernon Spaulding, 44, is looking forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done...
...general, we resident correspondents worry too much about getting our next trip, just as outside journalists worry about getting their next visas. This sometimes leads to an almost unconscious self-censorship." Munro's own reports have not all been critical of China. He marveled last year at a grain harvest he was allowed to join, and even his human rights series contains kind words for the leniency with which the Chinese sometimes handle people accused of nonpolitical crimes. As for his stories about the less engaging aspects of Chinese life, Munro claims no bias other than his commitment to objectivity...