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...before John Malcolm Brinnin's monstrous work is seized by chanting ecologists, the unrepentant book lover will wheel his barrow to the store and bring home a copy. One reason for doing so is that it contains not one scrap of information that is essential, or even useful, to civilization's forward lurch...
Drop in the Samovar. The cracks are still narrow. In 1970 the U.S. sold $118 million worth of goods to the Soviets, mostly hides, pulp, aluminum oxides and machinery. In return, Americans imported $72 million in Russian goods, principally sable skins, fuels, aluminum scrap, chrome ore and other metals. That was a mere drop in the samovar for the Soviet Union, which does about $5 billion worth of business a year with other non-Communist countries...
...will take more than talk to increase trade between the two superpowers. The U.S. presently buys caviar, sable skins, chrome, aluminum scrap and various chemicals from the Soviets, but they have little else of immediate interest to offer American importers. Soviet industrial officials are anxious to acquire high-technology American goods, particularly machine tools and computer software; however, many of the items they desire require special clearance from the Commerce Department because of alleged national security considerations...
...that he backed away from making a grab for power. According to some accounts, Brezhnev could count on only five votes. At least seven Politburo members are implacably opposed to granting greater governmental authority to Brezhnev to go along with his party leadership; to do so would be to scrap the collective leadership system that was instituted after Khrushchev's ouster as a safeguard against one-man dictatorship...
...peak of the fighting between the French and the Viet Minh during the "first Indochina war," South Viet Nam derived some income from exports of rice and rubber. But now many of the plantations are in ruins, rice is imported from the U.S., and the leading export is scrap metal left behind by the departing U.S. military. Exports bring in a bare $16 million a year, while imports are running at an annual rate of $700 million...