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...thus helped to prop up prices, but the value of exports fell this year (from $43.8 billion to $40.5 billion) for the first time since 1969. Meanwhile, millions of tons of grain-35 million tons of wheat alone-sit unsold in overflowing silos and elevators across the U.S. heartland. Storage space is so tight that grain is even piling up outside, covered only by tarpaulins. This year for the first time farmers will clear less money ($19 billion) than they pay out in interest ($22 billion). Says National Farmers Union President George Stone: "That kind of arithmetic is apocalyptic...
...biography seems quite cosmopolitan, so it is somewhat surprising that Gregory J. Nagy (pronounced "Nazh"), professor of Latin and Greek, calls himself "by temperment, a Midwesterner." He was raised in the heartland--not on a farm, but on the campus of the University of Indiana, which he attended. "I find Indiana, and the Midwest in general just a very friendly place, having most of the cultural benefits that you get elsewhere," he says. "Maybe you just have to work more...
...east to Washington to be honored along with Bandleader Fred Waring, 82, and the late champ Joe Louis. Government-issued gold medals of the three were approved by Congress last week. There have been 90 honorees since George Washington received the first medal in 1776. Another son of the heartland, President Reagan, will probably present the medal. Although no stranger to horse operas, Reagan appeared in none of the 35 movies made from L'Amour novels. "I only wish he had done one of my works," says L'Amour. "Maybe I can talk him into doing one some...
...kidnaping, which took place in the heartland of Nkomo's Ndebele tribe, was just one of several recent signs that the uneasy truce among the Ndebeles, Mugabe's majority Shonas and Zimbabwe's white minority is threatening to break apart only 27 months after the transformation of white-dominated Rhodesia into black-dominated Zimbabwe. Mugabe and the rotund Nkomo had helped negotiate the terms of Zimbabwe's independence. In the ensuing election, Nkomo was defeated for the prime ministership by Mugabe, and since then there has been a growing rift between the two nationalist leaders. Last...
Forming a necklace across a quarter of the North American continent, the lakes are an important artery for commerce, allowing ships to ferry such products of the American heartland as grain, steel and timber to countries around the world. They also are a major sport fishery for such species as lake trout, salmon and muskellunge and an aquatic playground for vacationers. Environmentalists used to fear that some of the lakes were dead or dying, but the era of mindless dumping has finally ended, and the water's purity seems to be improving from year to year...