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Next comes $2.6 million from the U.S. commercial import program. Under this, the Agency for International Development pays U.S. exporters in dollars, but the piasters paid by Vietnamese importers are turned over to Thieu's regime. Saigon's use of the money has helped the police force grow almost 70% since...
...paraphrase Chief Justice Marshall, if it be apparent that the tapes are irrelevant to the investigation, or that for State reasons they cannot be introduced into the case, the subpoena duces tecum would be useless. But if this be not apparent, if they may be important in the investigation, if they may be safely heard by the grand jury, if only in part, would it not be a blot on the page which records the judicial proceedings of this country, if, in a case of such serious import as this, the court did not at least call for an inspection...
...perception of ourselves in this nation must change now. We are no longer self-sufficient. One-half of our energy will soon be coming from abroad. All of our exports soon will pay only for the raw materials we must import. Our agriculture products now have to be thoughtfully allocated. Take the wheat deal, for which we have been criticized. Our intelligence was faulty. But there was not a thought by anyone that we would not have enough wheat. Our whole orientation-by Congress, by farm experts, by businessmen-has been to sell it when we could. We must rethink...
WHEAT: Total world exportable supplies are estimated to be anywhere from 48 to 62 million tons this year. At best, that will be down from last year's 69 million ton supply, and will fall short of global import demand calculated at 65 million tons. The Soviet Union will be buying wheat again because it is falling below its harvest target, though less disastrously than in 1972. The Common Market last month banned all exports of wheat from its nine member countries until further notice. Argentina, normally an exporter, bought wheat in the U.S. last week because...
...result, South Korea, which once exported rice, must now import...