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...Arabs, but the West needs Arab oil more than the pre-industrial Arab states need modern manufactures. As for food, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz pointed out last week that the Arabs could readily replace U.S. grain with grain bought from the Soviet Union, which has enjoyed a record harvest this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Risky Road of Retaliation | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...concentrate on stopping inflationary actions taken by the Government. In the recent past, bureaucratic infighting helped temper prices. Earlier this year, for example, the COLC practically forced Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to allow farmers to expand acreage of several crops. As a result, the U.S. is enjoying a record harvest of food, which should ease the continuing rise in supermarket prices. It is doubtful, however, that an agency without a mandate to blow the whistle on private wage-price behavior could do an effective job -and even within the Government, the President himself would have to make sure that other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: A Lingering Phase-Out | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...province of Quang Due, bordering on Cambodia, outnumbered and outgunned Saigon troops are currently locked in a bitter struggle to retake key outposts lost to North Vietnamese units earlier this month. A deadly war of attrition continues in the soggy green Mekong Delta, where the rice is ready for harvest. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott visited both combat zones last week and filed this report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: You Tell Me When the War Will Be Over | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Despite the record harvest, threats of food shortages keep popping up like hobgoblins at Halloween. New scarcities are now expected in such key items as canned goods and dairy products; even turkey will be in short supply for the holidays. More frustrating, because of snarls on overloaded U.S. railroads, the bumper yields will be tortuously slow in reaching markets, further tightening supplies and kicking up retail food prices, which have inflated 21.5% in the past year. Concedes Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "It's probable that we will see some larger food prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yes, We Have No Tomatoes | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...Harvest Home, Tryon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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