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Equally important is what Reagan did not do. He did not embargo the sale of grain to the Soviets, which could have dealt the U.S.S.R. a real economic blow. The Soviet Union is suffering its third poor harvest in a row (this year's grain crop will be the smallest since 1975), and received 50% of its grain imports from the U.S. in 1981. Blocking the sale would have been politically damaging for Reagan: in April he lifted the grain embargo that Carter had imposed after the Afghanistan invasion; the farm bill passed last month might require the Administration...
...They harvest the rice...
...curious facts of American culture that some forms of "popular" entertainment--most notably television--have at least as many detractors as advocates. The chorus of critics of the godawful tube swells measurably with every September's new harvest of sitcoms, and their dirge, for good reason usually, is deafeningly loud. Television has had enough evil-sounding adjectives attached to it to intimidate Roget, and the articles on the T.V. drug don't just proliferate, they pullulate. And one has to feel we have scaled the pinnacle of absurdity when T.V. performs a dialogue between self and soul and covers...
Last week the Soviet government quickly supplied Poland with badly needed food, though the Kremlin refrained from telling its own people of the action. Soviet citizens are anticipating their third disastrous harvest in a row and might respond ungraciously to news that Poland, which they consider to have overstepped the bounds of socialism, is almost literally being given bread from Soviet mouths. As one Soviet worker groused: "We send them our meat, we send them our oil, and all they want is more...
...final decision to fix the date was a direct response to an array of pagan harvest festivals, and ignored the philosophical arguments offered by some Christian theologians. Most sun-worshiping early religions--including the Persian, Roman Norse, Gothic, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon--staged lavish winter solstice celebrations to mark the annual rebirth...