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Surfeited with some 100 million surplus tons of grain, U.S. farmers bewail the missed opportunities. "It's a little like spitting in the ocean," complains Robert Delano, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "We have simply invited the Soviet Union to shop elsewhere to fill in its shortages." Says Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa: "This extension is great news for Argentine, Australian, Canadian and European farmers...
...autumn colors in New England. These hot days he yearns for the surge of the Maine surf, and now and then he takes a picture of his Maine home out of the top left drawer of his desk and looks at the rocky promontory and the blue ocean. His proximity to power has not taken the poetry out of his life. Perhaps that is why he has become something of a legend, a Vice President who likes...
...mercenary was killed and several oth ers wounded. Desperate to escape, the raiders fought their way to the control tower, guided an incoming Air India 707 to a landing and commandeered the plane. They forced the Air India pilot to fly them 2,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to Durban...
...narrow India's differences with the U.S. on a number of issues. Among them: Washington's vocal opposition to the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, the sale of 40 American F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan and the controversial U.S. naval base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Prime Minister's son, Rajiv, her heir apparent, will accompany her on the trip. On the eve of her departure, Gandhi discussed foreign and domestic problems in an exclusive interview with TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief Marcia Gauger. Excerpts...
...amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices has met with failure. If enough people have the problem, ultimately someone will relate...