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...countryside, the rebels woo the peasants by striking at wealthy | landowners. During the recent coffee harvest, the F.M.L.N. decreed that growers should pay their pickers nearly twice the legal minimum wage, which can be less than $2 a day. When some landholders refused to cooperate, armed guerrillas hijacked truckloads of newly harvested beans and redistributed the stolen booty to the pickers. Other landowners who balked at paying a "war tax" to finance the insurgency have been burned...
...rebels' show of strength comes at a particularly difficult time for the government, which already faces staggering economic trouble. This year's coffee harvest will probably be the scantiest in 30 years, disastrous news for a country that counts on this single product for one-third of its income. An additional 50% of its income comes from U.S. aid, but belt tightening in Washington could erode the $537 million currently allocated to El Salvador...
...other indicators, mostly of the Soviet domestic variety, stock in Gorby Inc. is in a tailspin. Most devastating was the news last week that the 1988 Soviet grain harvest ranked as the worst in three years. Despite desperate efforts to reform agriculture, the harvest came in 16 million tons below the previous year and 40 million tons below 1988 targets. Pravda, meanwhile, reported that the Soviet crime rate climbed nearly 17% in the past year, and attributed the rise partly to corruption spawned by new economic freedoms...
...year the earth spoke, like God warning Noah of the deluge. Its message was loud and clear, and suddenly people began to listen, to ponder what portents the message held. In the U.S., a three-month drought baked the soil from California to Georgia, reducing the country's grain harvest by 31% and killing thousands of head of livestock. A stubborn seven-week heat wave drove temperatures above 100 degrees F across much of the country, raising fears that the dreaded "greenhouse effect" -- global warming as a result of the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere...
...cutting firewood. In Burkina Faso villagers have responded to steadily dwindling rainfall by building handmade dams and adapting primitive water-gathering techniques. Even so simple a trick as putting stones along the contour lines of a field to catch rainwater can make the difference between an adequate harvest and no harvest...