Word: importers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suitable for cultivation. Most of this is farmed by huge agrarian combines that produce tomatoes, eggplants, chick peas, strawberries and asparagus for the export market rather than less profitable staples for domestic consumption. Mexico sells $1.1 billion worth of foodstuffs to the U.S. each year, but has to import 4.5 million tons of grain to feed its people...
Jorge I. Dominguez, associate professor of Government and a specialist in Latin American affairs, said yesterday Carter deserves credit for emphasizing that "nothing going on in Cuba is of sufficient import to affect SALT...
Carter's promises to balance the budget (world record: most daring fiscal pronouncement) and not to import an additional barrel of oil (U.S. record: optimism) have put him in embarrassing binds. So did his pledge to hold all those news conferences, which were designed to break some kind of record and shame the reclusive Nixon...
...Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87, the grand old man of global neutrality, stepped off a Yugoslav air force Boeing 727 at Havana's Jose Marti Airport last week, he was stiffly embraced by his host, Cuban President Fidel Castro, 52, the tireless huckster of import-export revolution. It was hardly the sort of comradely bear hug the two leaders have exchanged in the past. This time they were preparing for a fierce showdown over the direction and leadership of what some diplomats called "the very soul" of the Third World...
That network now includes such things as student exchanges and some ten official protocols covering everything from the sale of a U.S. telecommunications system to the exchange of meteorological information. Mondale also announced that the U.S. will make available to China Export-Import Bank loans of $2 billion over the next five years...