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...rainfall, nearly one-third of the 51 million people who live in this band from the Atlantic to the Red Sea are threatened by starvation. Not even a good rainfall this season can end the tragedy, so wasted is the land and so slight the prospect of a bountiful harvest. Worst hit are Ethiopia and the six nations of the arid Sahel (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad...
...face of these difficulties, even some of the most resourceful reporters, like David Bonavia of the London Times and Ulrich Grudinski of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, lean toward dry accounts based on official pronouncements, whether the subject is the latest grain harvest or the smear-Confucius campaign. When Grudinski has the urge to talk to expert sources, he pops down to Hong Kong to mingle with the community of professional China watchers there. The most limited correspondents of all are the Japanese, who operate under rigid self-censorship. When the Japanese were re-admitted following the Cultural Revolution, the major...
...intricate and hidden as a crown of feathers." It seems as though Akhsa would have done as well to stick with "the castigating words of the prophets, who never mentioned the Kingdom of Heaven or the resurrection of the dead. All they promised was a good harvest for good deeds and starvation and plague for bad ones...
When farmers brought in the most abundant harvest in U.S. history last fall, the Nixon Administration confidently predicted that agricultural supplies would finally be ample enough to slow down the year's runaway food prices. They were right-for a while. But suddenly all of the forces that drove up the cost of eating in 1973 so relentlessly are at work again; foreign demand for U.S. agricultural products is running higher than expected, for example, and the cost of livestock feed has risen sharply. Just for good measure, the energy crisis has added at least one new woe: farmers...
That possibility is particularly worrisome, since the Administration's long-range strategy to combat rising food prices is to do everything possible to encourage another record harvest in 1974. A preliminary survey compiled last week by the Agriculture Department showed that farmers do indeed plan to grow more than ever this year. Provided that the weather and other imponderables cooperate, they should harvest some 2 billion bu. of wheat, an increase of 300 million bu. over last year's yield. The jump in corn planting is up 10%, to more than 77 million acres. In fact, the profits...