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When Ronald Reagan in April lifted the partial grain embargo against the Soviet Union that had been imposed by Jimmy Carter 16 months earlier, it was clear that the U.S. was willing to sell its harvest surplus. Not so certain was whether Moscow was willing to buy, and, if so, how much. After a day and a half of bargaining in London last week, American and Soviet trade officials announced that the U.S.S.R. will be allowed to purchase 3 million metric tons of wheat and 3 million metric tons of corn above the 8 million tons it is allowed...
Growers are still trying to sell off surpluses from last year's record-breaking wheat harvest, and this year's winter-wheat crop promises to be the most bountiful ever. The new Soviet deal, predicts Maurice Van Nostrand, research director for AGRI Industries, an association of low cooperatives, "will make a big difference News of a major new purchaser is bound to have a psychological impact on the market, and it will bring in buyers from other nations more aggressively.'' The only cloud on the horizon is the nagging poor weather-either too much...
...country as a happy escape from the grinding realities of the city-the great exception being Millet, with his unfaltering sense of the earth and its rigors, and the stupors it enforced on those who worked it. One may doubt whether the women's work of gleaning after harvest was normally as dignified and arcadian as Breton suggested in The Gleaners...
...held to celebrate the first anniversary, and the relative success so far, of the country's land-reform program. The haciendas visited by junta members were among the 283 estates that have been expropriated since last March and converted into cooperatives farmed by 40,000 peasants. The recent harvest has not been spectacular, but it was surprisingly satisfactory-especially in view of the disruptions caused by the land-reform process itself and the violence from both left and right...
Soyinka, author of "Kongi's Harvest" and "The Lion and the Jewel," was detained by the Nigerian government during the seventies for his political activities. He spoke as a guest of the annual Theodore Spencer memorial lecture series, which has, in the past, invited T.S. Eliot and Jean Renoir...