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...many ways to spend money. To ensure ample supplies < of grain, Riyadh has paid growers six times the world price for their output. But since the kingdom consumes only about half the nearly 2 million tons that farmers produce annually, Saudi Arabia has a grain glut. Efforts to raise livestock have been troubled. The Saudi Arabian Agriculture and Dairy Co., which opened in 1980, managed to breed 15,000 cows over the following five years. But the $100 million total cost was so great that the firm had to refinance its debts...
...tight-lipped farmer and his wife Emily, 64, bemoaned their financial troubles for four hours. "We haven't even got money for groceries," Emily confided. Said Forbes: "It hurt Dale not to be able to pay his debts. He said the Hills Bank was after him to sell his livestock and machinery and rent his land out. But he was too proud for that...
Montana acted ostensibly to keep livestock free of brucellosis, or Bang's disease, which has been detected in some Yellowstone buffalo. The disorder can cause cows to abort, and spreads undulant fever in humans. Critics say Montana has not suffered an outbreak of brucellosis for 25 years, and that the kill is being held to please the hunting fraternity and cover up herd mismanagement by the Park Service. While the Fund for Animals, headed by Author Cleveland Amory, is suing to prevent the hunt, the state has more than 3,000 applications from hunters eager to shoot the once endangered...
...half a million to a million civilians have been killed by the Soviet army. In addition, four million refugees have fled the country. The Soviet Union has achieved this by means of a ruthless policy in which they level entire villages, burn crops, destroy fields and irrigation canals, kill livestock and use chemical weapons in order to starve the Afghans out of their country...
...Livestock? "You know, like in the Wizard of Oz? Feathers everywhere. Pigs impaled on trees...