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...Eleni was transformed by crisis into a leader: she organized the escape of 20 people of Lia, most of them women and children, down the mountains and through the line of battle. The group made it. Eleni did not. On the eve of the flight, she was ordered to harvest wheat under guerrilla supervision in fields miles away. When the escape was discovered, she was tortured, "tried" for treason, and denounced by neighbors who had envied her few pitiful "riches" from America. Then she was shot. Her last words were the cry "My children...
...Atlanta-based company called AGRI-PIK Services, Inc., intends to reap profits from the PIK program by bringing together participating farmers and their suppliers. Though farmers will not receive the Government grain until harvest time, they do have certificates showing how much grain they will get then. AGRI-PIK has devised a system whereby a farmer can use the certificate to obtain credit from a number of suppliers...
Such self-centered motivation is far from the "harvest of international peace and understanding" contemplated by John F. Kennedy in 1961. However, it has enabled the Peace Corps to survive. Faced in 1981 with a declining budget and the demise of VISTA, its domestic counterpart, (termed "leftist" by ACTION director Thomas Pauken), the Corps began its image-changing drive, and succeeded in separating from ACTION, in February, 1982. When the need for the Peace Corps was challenged by right-wing interest groups, Ruppe mounted a counter-offensive. The budget was increased from $105 million in 1982 to $109 this year...
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1.2 million of the 2.3 million farms eligible have enrolled in the acreage-reduction program. This overwhelming response means that, of a total of 230.4 million eligible acres, farmers this year will not harvest 32.1 million acres of wheat (35% of eligible land), 39.5 million acres of corn and sorghum (39%), 1.7 million acres of rice (43%), 6.8 million acres of cotton (44%) and 2.3 million acres of barley and oats (12%). As a result, surpluses will begin to shrink. This year's corn crop, predicts the USDA, will be only...
...afternoon's harvest is poor. When Sprague surfaces for the last time, there are only 18 baskets on deck. The catch will bring $12 a bushel. But considering the cost of Frisky's fuel and upkeep, it will not make Brown and Sprague wealthy...