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...handful of the 300 people being cared for here would pick up $174 for being extras, for doing what they would do normally. It is a frequent affair, and the deal seems foursquare, with the residents keeping a hand in the business and the business free to harvest the natural rhythm of the old-the triple beat of a pair of feet and a cane coming down the hall, as some poet said or should have. It is part of the difference of the place...
...Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, January is harvest time. It is also a time when members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration check the skies for signs of bad weather, hoping that nature will spoil the lucrative crop of opium poppies that are the economic mainstay of the mountainous region where the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos converge. This year the climate has been kind to the poppy growers and bad for the DEA: a bumper crop of 700 tons is expected, 100 tons more than last year. But the U.S. narcs are not very worried. The reason...
...ways and the old often mix badly. The faith of some recently established congregations in rural Thailand tends to waver if prayers go unanswered. At the Ban Ti Christian Church north of Lamphun, a large blackboard hangs on the wall behind the pulpit. Prayers for rain, a speedy harvest and painless cures for various maladies are recorded every Sunday, then checked off the following week against the results...
During the past decade, autumn was harvest time for the serious moviegoer, the season for films with hearts of humanism and minds dreaming of Oscars. Often those dreams were fulfilled: four of the last seven winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire) were released in major cities between Labor Day and the end of November. In 1980 viewers could see Raging Bull, Private Benjamin and The Elephant Man. Last year there were The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ragtime and Absence of Malice...
Because of a third consecutive dismal harvest, the Soviets had to import 46 million tons of grain last year, or nearly 20% of their consumption, at a cost of $7 billion or more. At the same time, the sinking market price of oil, the chief Soviet export, cut earnings from energy sales. Result: a hard-currency deficit with the West of $4 billion. To help close that gap, the Soviets sold some 250 tons of gold in 1981 to raise about $3 billion...