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...vacation spots in the eastern Mediterranean. But last week, reported TIME Correspondent William Marmon after a revisit to the place where he had vacationed in the past and more recently hunkered down during the Turkish invasion, Kyrenia was like a charnel house. Bloated human bodies rotted in back alleys; livestock and chickens were dying of starvation; meats and produce were putrefying in the summer sun because shelling and gunfire had cut off electricity. From a happy harbor Kyrenia had disintegrated into a place where 700 terrified Greek Cypriot refugees were locked up in Castellis Dome Hotel rooms designed...
...with supplies of livestock feed likely to be tightened, ranchers are cutting back production of new calves and sending more of their breeding stock to market. That will probably bring down beef prices in the next month or so, but they will probably soar again in the fall as cattle shipments dwindle...
...energy boom is taking place at the same time Wyoming's cattle industry is on the skids. Livestock prices have been falling, and ranchers have been selling out. Some of them fear that simply the presence of more people will upset their bucolic way of life even further. "We're talking about a life-style changing," says Bob Browne of the Federal Bureau of Land Management...
...Electric power from Aswan will be sent to the desert and used to pump up the water and irrigate the land. In a test project, 100,000 transplanted Egyptians are now living in the Kharga Oasis at the southeastern end of the desert, where they successfully raise crops and livestock. One farmer, Mohammed Mahmud, happily told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn: "I used to live in a village in the Nile valley, where I was able to rent only two acres of land. I moved over here, and now I own six acres of land, two cows, four goats...
There was one bit of happy news for consumers: predictions of record harvests this fall caused farm prices to fall 6% in the month ended April 15, the second straight decline. Citing lower livestock costs, the Hormel packing company cut the price of its meat products by 7% to 14%. Among other things, the price of Spam will drop...