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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combines stood idle as farmers watched the crop sink into the mud. The forecast is bleak this summer in the kolkhozy (collective farms) and sovkhozy (state farms) of the Soviet grain belt, where capricious weather has caused a third consecutive bad harvest-with an anticipated shortfall of 51 million metric tons in Soviet grain production...
...past that the distribution of DOA news bulletins in Washington this summer regularly attracted Soviet journalists. According to U.S. specialists who have analyzed satellite photos of Soviet farm land and who have also visited rural areas, the 1981 grain yield will amount to less than 185 million metric tons-21.6% below the target of 236 million in the current Soviet five-year plan. Grain production will be up imperceptibly from 179.2 million tons in 1979, and down marginally from 189.2 million last year...
...taking steps to stock Poland's larder. Last week the Reagan Administration announced plans to grant Warsaw $55 million in long-term credits to buy and transport 350,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Poland to help save the country's threatened poultry industry. The Administration also authorized the Catholic Relief Services agency to buy surplus American agricultural products at low prices for shipment to Poland. Reflecting just how critical its food shortage has become, Poland has attracted the concern of CARE, the New York City-based charity that first gained international recognition in 1946 by sending...
...drugs in the U.S., cocaine is now the biggest producer of illicit in come. Some 40 metric tons of it will be shipped into the country this year. As coke experts like to point out, if all the international dealers who supply the drug to the U.S. market-not even including the retailers-were to form a single corporation, it would probably rank seventh on the FORTUNE 500 list, between Ford Motor Co. ($37 billion in revenue) and Gulf Oil Corp. ($26.5 billion). Last year street sales of cocaine, by far the most expensive drug on the market, reached...
...willing to sell its harvest surplus. Not so certain was whether Moscow was willing to buy, and, if so, how much. After a day and a half of bargaining in London last week, American and Soviet trade officials announced that the U.S.S.R. will be allowed to purchase 3 million metric tons of wheat and 3 million metric tons of corn above the 8 million tons it is allowed to acquire under the existing five-year agreement, which expires on Sept. 30. Both sides will meet again to discuss a new long-term pact; in the meantime, the Soviet Union will...