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...protracted militarization of the economy." This was resoundingly seconded by American Communist Party Boss Gus Hall, who described the economic situation in the U.S. as horribly bleak. Kosygin deftly skirted the chronic shortages plaguing the Soviet consumer. He blamed poor weather for last year's disastrous harvest that resulted in a 76-million-ton grain shortage. This forced Moscow to buy 35 million tons from the U.S. and other foreign suppliers. The Premier, of course, made no mention of Moscow's own massive militarization (expenditures totaled $141 billion last year, v. $94 billion...
Addressing himself to Russia's domestic economic problems (TIME, March 1), Brezhnev blamed poor weather for much of the Soviet Union's disappointing harvest last year. He also heaped scorn on apparatchiks in charge of food and consumer-goods production. Said he: "Our central planning and administrative organizations have shown insufficient concern for the light [consumer], food and service industries." As examples of poor-quality products, he specifically cited shoes, fabrics, clothing, housewares and furniture...
...most notable troubles are in agriculture. Drought contributed to a disastrous harvest in 1975; because of an 83-million-ton grain shortage, the Soviets were obliged to buy 35 million tons from the U.S. and other foreign countries. The winter-wheat crop this year has already proved disappointing. Some Washington experts predict that shortages of bread and especially meat and dairy products will become so acute by next spring that strikes and even riots could break out. These disorders are most likely to occur in provincial towns, but not in Moscow and other big cities that hold high priorities...
LAND RIGHTS. Many Western landowners-Cheyenne Indians, Montana ranchers, Dakota farmers-have been fighting the coal companies. The question for them is whether to allow their property to be torn up to harvest a onetime-only crop of coal if the land cannot be returned to its original use. Farmer Harold Oberlander of New England, N. Dak., had an experience that has been repeated many times elsewhere. When he came home from his 2,000 acres of wheatland one day last year, a coal-leasing agent offered him a down payment of $10,000 cash, plus royalties on the coal...
...gray train for the Lions was the rebounding department, as they picked the boards clean with 42 rebounds and limited Harvard to a meager harvest...