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Last week Canada announced the sale of 187 million bu. to Russia, an order second only in history to Russia's fantastic 1963 purchase of 239 million...
...sale raised Russia's total 1965 order for Canadian wheat to 222 mil lion bu., all of which will be delivered between now and August 1966. At a press conference in Winnipeg, Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp and William McNamara, head of the Canadian
...sale was one more sign of the sorry state of Communist agriculture. This year, the Soviets said, it was a case of too much rain in Central Russia and too little in the Caucasus and Kazakhstan's much-touted "virgin lands." The result will be a 1965 wheat crop of 2 billion bu., compared with a 1958-62 average of 2.5 billion bu. To meet growing demands within both Russia and the satellite countries, the Soviets have bought 330 million bu. of wheat in the world market since June, including 80 million bu. from Argentina...
Strict liability has long applied to ultrahazardous activities. A contractor using explosives, for example, is strictly liable for injuries to bystanders. But except in the case of food and drink, the doctrine has never applied until recently to normal sales transactions. Now it is being rapidly extended to cover the sale of almost any product that has some potential danger-from roller skates to airplanes. A key precedent in this process occurred in 1960 after a New Jersey driver slammed his new car into a brick wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge...
Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...