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Final verdict: no crime, much chaos in Carter finances very nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse, and no funds were unlawfully diverted in either direction." With that exculpatory conclusion, Special Counsel Paul J. Curran last week wrapped up his exhaustive, seven-month dig through the tangled finances of the Carter family peanut warehouse. There was "no evidence whatsoever" of criminal financial maneuvers by Jimmy or Billy Carter, said Curran, and "no indictment can or should be brought against anyone...
American strength rests on this miracle of food. Without it Carter might be hoeing peanut plants for the Queen and Kennedy might be a barkeep in Ireland. While we falter in other global competition, this season the U.S. harvest of corn, soybeans, wheat and other grains will humble even mythology. The Soviets know. With tensions high over the troops in Cuba, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland was not sure Moscow's grain negotiators would even show up a few days ago to review purchases. They did, and signaled that they would buy 25 million metric tons of grain...
...wish Jimmy Carter could have read your story on leadership [Aug. 6] aloud on his Sunday TV talk after returning from the mountain, instead of giving us that "peanut butter and jelly" saga...
...Texas' South Padre Island, hundreds of vacationers last week swam and basked in the sun. They seemed oblivious to Coast Guardsmen who were positioning floating barriers in the water. But even as the sunbathers relaxed at the expensive resort, which grosses $40 million annually in tourist dollars, peanut-size globs of oil began to wash up on the beach. Others, as big as basketballs, floated just offshore...
...Sunfish" are wolfing down peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The "Hawks" have already devoured the main course and are biting into fudge brownies...